From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011221 BuildID: 2001122106 When receiving mail, the timeout before an error message is displayed (cannot connect to server) is too short. I found no way to change this timeout. Especially on machines with slow dial-up connections, or such connecting e.g. using Nat32 on another machine, I receive the error message every time I start the mail client. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Find a machine that takes a long time to connect to the internet 2. Make sure "Check for new mail at startup" is enabled 3. Make sure the machine is currently disconnected, and set to auto-dial 4. Start the mail client Actual Results: Received the error message that the client could not connect to the mail server. Expected Results: Should have waited until the connection is established. (It worked with Netscape 4.76) I suggest that either the timeout should be made longer, or it should be possible to change it.

yeah, as I'm on dialup, Netscape 6.2.1 is a dog when these come up, Not sure the exact order here, but it opens the mail start page, checks any newsgroups for messages if they are defaulted to open and if the Netscape server is really slow Mail may not connect and this dialog pops up. Which it does feel like its out of place when it comes up.

taking dennis' comment as confirmation.. what are recent builds like anyone? What's moz 1.0 like?

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Same problem in linux, Debian woody, Dial on demand link to ISP, touch and go if mozilla mail times out before connected to mail server. Stops me using mozilla in check mail every 1 hour mode.

Upgraded to mozilla 1.3.1, problem just goes away .... ahhh ..... Dave

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I am currently experiencing this bug with Mozilla 1.4 mail and news client. In fact it is bad enough that I will have to change to another mail client. I really feel that the timeout for checking mail on (in this case) POP accounts needs to be able to be specified by the user, if not in the actual preferences dialog, then by modifying the prefs file itself.

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It looks to me that bug 189363 is about the same issue. And it has some work in progress.

Outlook Express doesn't just show an error message on timeout, but it asks the user if he'd like to wait further or to cancel. Would be nice to have that in Mozilla products, too.

(In reply to comment #0 thru comment #10) mail.pop3_response_timeout(default=45 sec) was implemented and was modifiable. This was included in Thunderbird 1.0.x, although UI was not available. After that, mailnews.tcptimeout(default=60 sec) was introduced ( mail.pop3_response_timeout was removed ), and UI was also implemeted ( Tools/Options, Advanced, General ), and was included in Thunderbird 1.5.0.0. See Bug 277071 and Bug 278144. So this bug is already WORKSFORME, or FIXED by other bugs, if connection is TCP/IP over dial up connection or usual TCP/IP over LAN/ADSL with router type ADSL modem. (In reply to comment #11) > Outlook Express doesn't just show an error message on timeout, but it asks the > user if he'd like to wait further or to cancel. Would be nice to have that in > Mozilla products, too. Martin F., your request is different from this bug's issue. Please file new bug with Severity=Enhancement, if and only if similar enhancement is not requested yet, after searching Bugzilla well.

WFm per comment 10