The JS Front end (commandglue.js) is setting the offline state and then asking the backend to download messages for offline use. This is difficult, since I need a network connection to do that stuff. The way it's supposed to work is the front end leaves the state alone and the backend will set the offline state appropriately when it's done. That's why there's a parameter to the offline sync methods that say whether to go offline when done or not. I'll attach a patch shortly removing the front end code.

this has to be fixed for beta - going offline can't do any network operations. I'm going to fix this as part of cleaning up all the front end online/offline state handling.

marking nsbeta1+

bienvenu, see my latest patch for #65704. will that solve this problem, too?

yes, you've done what I did - remove all the code in commandglue.js that directly poked the offline state. thanks for fixing this! *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 65704 ***

Marking verified duplicate.