(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #27) > ISTM we only need to fix a couple bugs to make this good enough to send out > for wider testing. What do others think?
Generally send in background worked fine when we first implemented it, however, there were two big issues that we never solved at the time: * the user's expectations around what happens to unsent messages at shutdown * the potential dataloss issues at shutdown (e.g. if a message fails to be copied to a folder on shutdown, what should happen?). Many of the blocking bugs are related to these two big issues, and these were what blocked it from being enabled 10 or so years ago. They need careful thinking about and the various possible routes examining. iirc, handling some of this on shutdown wasn't easy to do when we looked at it many years ago (e.g. bug 459376). That may have changed now. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/810769 Title: Sending window distracting and interrupts flow Status in Mozilla Thunderbird: Confirmed Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: When sending an email in Thunderbird a small dialog box appears to say the message is being sent and this affects the flow of interacting with your email. In almost every case I move the focus away from that window and go to my INBOX. My recommendation would for the window to not show and to show this information in the status bar (similar to how it works in Evolution). ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: thunderbird 5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu5 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-5.6-generic 3.0.0-rc7 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-5-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Thu Jul 14 14:59:20 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110202) ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: thunderbird UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-07-13 (1 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/810769/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
