Ubuntu
thunderbird package

Thunderbird does not honor network-manager offline state

Bug #384749 reported by Christophe
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: thunderbird

When I am starting thunderbird without any network connection it doesn't activate offline mode automatically, but ten(!) error messages (Failed to connect to server) pop up. This is very annoying.

I tried to change the "offline.startup_state" and "offline.autoDetect" setting, but nothing changes. Firefox detects the offline state correctly though.

ii network-manager 0.7.1-0ubuntu1~nm1~jaunty
ii network-manager-gnome 0.7.1-0ubuntu1~nm1~jaunty1
ii network-manager-pptp 0.7.1~rc4.20090316+bzr23-0ubuntu3
ii network-manager-vpnc 0.7.1~rc4.20090316+bzr21-0ubuntu3~ppa3
ii thunderbird 2.0.0.21+nobinonly-0ubuntu1.9.04.1
ii thunderbird-locale-de 1:2.0.0.14+1-0ubuntu2
ii thunderbird-locale-en-gb 1:2.0.0.14+1-0ubuntu2

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Christophe (christophe-wk3) wrote :

There is a discussion about this at Ubuntu brainstorm, but I think it's a bug because it works in firefox.

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/12934/

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wvengen (wvengen) wrote :

There is a config option toolkit.network.manager.disable that is true by default. I've just set this to false and now the offline status is synchronised with network-manager's. Let's see how this goes.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Toolkit.networkmanager.disable

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Alejandro Perez (alejandro-perez-mendez) wrote :

I changed the value of the key toolkit.network.manager.disable to false, but offline status is still not synchronized with NM.
Are you using Ubuntu Maverick or any other Ubuntu version?

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in thunderbird (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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