97094 - cannot save draft *while* sending

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[siffert]

Sort of a weird combination of events here - I wrote a long email, and tried to
send it.  The From: address was set to my personal domain, which happened to be
unreachable at the time because my dns provider was down.  Anyway, I tried
sending it once and it chugged for a while and then gave me an error saying
"Could not verify address" or something - no problem.  Before I had figured out
why, I tried sending it again.  While it was chugging away, I clicked "Save",
which seemed to work okay, and then I clicked the upper-right "x" to make the
message (in the process of being sent) disappear from view.  Then I got the
"could not verify" error back again... and my email was nowhere to be found. 
Not in "Sent", not in "Drafts", nowhere on disk, nowhere.  I think the behaviour
should be that when "Save" is clicked it should Save in drafts, even if it is
attempting to send at the same time.

Thanks,
Curt

Comment 1

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

Sounds reasonable.  Marking NEW.  Adding dataloss keyword since the reporter
demonstrated how written emails can be lost.

Comment 2

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

Save button should be disable during a send operation...
->varada

Comment 3

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

taking all of varada's bugs.

Comment 4

[Brant Gurganus]

By the definitions on <http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/bug_status.html#severity> and
<http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?format=guided>, crashing and dataloss
bugs are of critical or possibly higher severity.  Only changing open bugs to
minimize unnecessary spam.  Keywords to trigger this would be crash, topcrash,
topcrash+, zt4newcrash, dataloss.

Comment 5

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

I believe this is available.