95302 - when unable to connect to a server error message does not mention the server name

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 59682

(MailNews Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Brian Duff]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.2+)
Gecko/20010721
BuildID:    2001072108

When the mail client is unable to connect to a server, it displays an alert like
this:

"Failed to connect to the server."

This alert is not particularly useful in that it doesn't identify which server
the client could not connect to. If you have multiple POP / IMAP / NNTP accounts
set up and mozilla is set up to check mail on all of them at startup, this
message sometimes randomly pops up while you are reading messages from another
server, which is highly confusing at first, and quite annoying after you get
used to it.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
I can reproduce this by setting up three accounts, two are IMAP connections and
one is an NNTP connection. I have "Check for new mail at startup" selected for
the two IMAP accounts (this option isn't present for NNTP, and yet it attempts
to connect at startup every time anyway).

I don't have access to the NNTP server and one of the IMAP servers from my ppp
connection because I am behind a firewall, but I can access the second IMAP
server fine. I start up mozilla, click on the second IMAP connection.

Actual Results:  It starts downloading messages in my INBOX, then an alert pops
up saying "Failed to connect to the server.". But it's talking about the other
IMAP server or the NNTP server.

Expected Results:  It starts downloading messages in my INBOX, and an alert pops
up saying "Failed to connect to news.us.oracle.com" (or something).

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 66860 ***

Comment 2

[Karen Huang]

Reopening this bug in order to dup this bug to bug 59682

Comment 3

[Karen Huang]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 59682 ***

Comment 4

[Karen Huang]

Verified as dup.

Comment 5

[Karen Huang]

Really verified.