Open Bug 103875 Opened 23 years ago Updated 16 years ago

Downloading attachments should open a separate progress dialog

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

enhancement
Not set
normal

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(Not tracked)

People

(Reporter: bruppel1, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.5+) Gecko/20011009 BuildID: 2001100903 Currently, status and downloading of message attachments is handled by the mailnews 3-pane window. This can be a problem, since A) one would like to do other things with mailnews while downloading a big attachment, and it is easy to loose track of the download in progress, and B) if one exits mailnews, the download is halted and you are left with an incomplete file. I think it would be totally appropriate to give downloading messages their own dialog (like the ones the browser uses), allowing them to at least seem to happen independently of the main mailnews window. These dialogs would remain open if mailnews was closed, making sure downloads were completed. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start downloading a big attachment, or several smaller ones 2.Do other stuff in Mailnews 3.or exit mailnews immediately Actual Results: It isn't very clear when your files are done downloading. If you exit mailnews, the file will be present, but it will be incomplete and corrupted. Expected Results: There should be a clear way of keeping track of download progress. If this bug is rejected, perhaps I should file another bug to give a warning if the file isn't finished downloading and you try to exit mailnews. I'll also file another one to not place a file at its destination until the download is complete.
Mail attachment downloads could fit nicely in the proposed download manager (bug 102477) that Netscape is planning for MachV (Netscape 6.5). This may be a duplicate, so I'm leaving it UNCONFIRMED.
True, true, but for some reason I think downloading attachments from an IMAP server (oops, I forgot that in my previous descriptions) is fundamentally different from ftp or http downloading.
Even if downloading from an IMAP server is fundamentally different, I don't see why mail attachment downloads can't be put in the proposed download manager. The people over at bug 102477 seem to like the idea anyway.
Cool! Makes sense anyway.
Should this depend on bug 124865?
Severity: normal → enhancement
Since this bug was reported, a newer version of Mozilla (1.0 RC1) has been released. Reporter, please can you check to see whether this bug is still present in a recent build (Moz1-RC1 or a new nightly build). If this bug does not occur please can you resolve the report?
This bug is not fixed in RC1.
Does the download manager solve this problem? pi
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 Build: 2002053012 Not fixed yet, and it's quite annoying, not at all just an enhancement I think.
Severity: enhancement → normal
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
We really need that feature.. and not only for IMAP accounts but for all of them. And not only for attachements but for emails first of all. It's specially annoying for people on slow modem connection and this progress bar or better "separate progress window" keeps them online/alive.. Let's change description to: "[RFE]Downloading mail should open a separate progress dialog" If I can I'd recommend making this separate progress dialog configurable (as do not show this windows *ever* again).. so folks with one of those fast DSL/whatever links and other_Who_don't need it might turn it off.
Peter, please file your RFE as a separate bug, downloading attachments and downloading email in general are distinct enough to warrant two bugs.
Here we go then: bug 146237 has been here since May. I do not think we need another bug to cover that, do we?
Blocks: 157217
[RFE] is deprecated in favor of severity: enhancement. They have the same meaning.
Severity: normal → enhancement
Summary: [RFE]Downloading attachments should open a separate progress dialog → Downloading attachments should open a separate progress dialog
*** Bug 246554 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
Assignee: sspitzer → mail
I expect this is WONTFIX but who knows?
OS: Windows 2000 → All
QA Contact: esther
Hardware: PC → All
Personally I'd like to see this in SeaMonkey but if Thunderbird don't want the equivalent (they're currently using the toolkit download manager so they don't get progress dialogs at all) then that might make implementing it tricky.
In thunderbird the toolkit download manager dialog does pop up some times, when doing save-as for bigger attachments (haven't figured out exactly when).
Assignee: mail → nobody
QA Contact: message-display
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