97532 - Error message needs improvement

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect)

Description

[Blake Ross]

Build ID: 2001082909

I just got the error message:

The RETR command did not succeed.  The mail server responded: internal error.

I assume RETR is retrieve.  At the very least, could we say something about
retrieving in English?

Comment 1

[robinf]

Scott, can you please describe the scenario(s) where this error message might 
occur. I'll then suggest some alternate text for this error message. Thanks.

Comment 2

[Daniel Wang]

Attachment: patch

Comment 3

[Scott MacGregor]

Comment on attachment 139973 [details] [diff] [review]
patch

question, do the alert boxes that come up with these errors actyually wrap this
text or we going to end up with really long alert dialogs when showing these
new longer messages?

Comment 4

[Daniel Wang]

> question, do the alert boxes that come up with these errors actyually wrap
> this text or we going to end up with really long alert dialogs when showing
> these new longer messages?

No idea. It probably does. If we can have

  ## @name MOVEMAIL_CANT_CREATE_LOCK
  ## @loc None
  4034=Unable to create lock file %S. For movemail to work, it is necessary
       to create lock files in the mail spool directory. On many systems,
       this is best accomplished by making the spool directory be mode 01777.

I don't see any problem of a 15-word text

Comment 5

[Daniel Wang]

Neil, sorry to bother you, but I don't have CVS account. Can you check the patch in?

Comment 6

[Jeongkyu Kim]

Hello QA,

This issue seems to be fixed already, so why don't we close this bug?
( I happended to check this bug entry while researching some RETR problem :-) )

Comment 7

[[e-mail]]

Yeah, sorry for not marking the bug fixed over a year and a half ago!