Bug 767702 - For Thunderbird, the offline mode doesn't mean offline
Summary: For Thunderbird, the offline mode doesn't mean offline
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: thunderbird
Version: 6.2
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Red Hat Gecko Maintainer
QA Contact: Desktop QE
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-12-14 16:59 UTC by Matěj Cepl
Modified: 2012-07-26 15:02 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-07-26 15:02:04 UTC
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2011-12-14 16:59 UTC, Matěj Cepl 		no flags Details
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Description Matěj Cepl 2011-12-14 16:59:25 UTC 
Created attachment 546815 [details]
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Offline mode of Thunderbird (one of the biggest selling points of standalone mail apps ...) seems to be completely broken currently (thunderbird-8.0-1.el6.x86_64).

a) Clicking on the offline icon in the bottom left corner makes thunderbird to sync, but doesn't switch to offline state,
b) even when I switch offline via menu, Thunderbird doesn't recognized it and tried to access many servers which were not available obviously (maybe, because it hasn't managed to sync completely yet, but anyway ... when I am offline, I should be offline, right?).
Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2012-05-03 05:34:46 UTC 
Since RHEL 6.3 External Beta has begun, and this bug remains
unresolved, it has been rejected as it is not proposed as
exception or blocker.

Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if appropriate and relevant, in the
next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Comment 4 Martin Stransky 2012-07-26 15:02:04 UTC 
It's because the offline state is managed by NetworkManager, the offline button is confusing. I already reported this bug upstream.
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