Mark Stier Reporter
	Description • 21 years ago

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

Well, when opening the mailnews client, I'm often not online. Therefore I don't
want to have to wait for that dialog to appear (get mails on startup activated).

Easiest solution: provide an option to disable all mailnews connection timed out
alert message windows.

Best solution (IMHO, maybe also for the browser interface): a status icon
displaying the status of the last connection attempt. Clicking on it would bring
up a log window with detailed descriptions. But I think that this enhancement
has been already submitted.

I hope that this (at least not the first part) is not a dupe, but I have done
several searches before submitting.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. unplug your inter
2. start mailnews (with get mails on startup activated)
3. wait for the error message


Expected Results:  
Kill the error message. Don't "block" the user interface.

	Eyal Rozenberg
	Comment 1 • 20 years ago

Please confirm. I too have been annoyed by the "connection timed out" dialog too
often. Although my gripe is a little different:

When MailNews is configured to check for new messages every X minutes, but the
window is minimized, I do not wish to see my MailNews taskbar button flashing to
inform me of the failure to contact the server; only when by my own decision I
switch to the MailNews window can I 'tolerate' such a pop-up dialog, and even
then I don't like it (usually what happens is that on the second attempt my mail
server does respond, so I'm getting notified of a transient problem).

Reporter: consider renmaming the bug to "need option to prevent 'connection to
server timed out' pop-up in some cases".

	Eyal Rozenberg
	Comment 3 • 20 years ago

How about, instead of not displaying the error message at all, displaying it in
in the status bar?

	Mark Stier Reporter
	Comment 4 • 20 years ago

(In reply to comment #3)
> How about, instead of not displaying the error message at all, displaying it in
> in the status bar?

Do it. :-)

I already suggested that elsewhere: to show a general error log icon in the
status bar (like the icon for the popup blocker) of the browser. Clicking on it
should pop up some sort of error history.

Currently, I just don't know enough of mozilla's codebase to do that. I need
more time and I haven't any of it right now. Maybe we should create an
enhancement request for 'such a thing' and make this bug dependable on it.

Additionally, this patch does not work for IMAP accounts -- although it would be
quite easy to do that.

	Eyal Rozenberg
	Comment 5 • 20 years ago

I'll add this one to my "hoping to get around to after my remaining exams" list...

	(not reading, please use seth@sspitzer.org instead)
	Comment 7 • 20 years ago

over to david, as he's fought with offline before.

as far as adding pref ui to tbird, you'll have to talk to mscott about this.

	Mike Cowperthwaite
	Comment 8 • 19 years ago

Isn't this basically a dupe of bug 123440?

	Mike Cowperthwaite
	Comment 9 • 19 years ago

*** Bug 255360 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

	Mike Cowperthwaite
	Comment 10 • 19 years ago

*** Bug 287378 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

	Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)
	Comment 11 • 18 years ago

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 123440 ***

	Simon Paquet [:sipaq]
	Comment 12 • 17 years ago

Comment on attachment 153463 [details] [diff] [review]
New preference to make Thunderbird quiet about NET_TIMEOUT_ERRORS

This patch is outdated (just applies to the old prefwindow code) and this bug has also been duplicated. If this is still an issue, please update the patch, post it to the appropriate bug and pick an appropriate reviewer from http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/review.html