[sylpheed:31430] Re: [bug] [win32] turning "Auto-check new mail" on hangs Sylpheed

Ricardo Mones ricardo.mones at gmail.com
Thu Jun 14 20:23:19 JST 2007


Hi,

On 6/14/07, Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:17:13 +0200
> "Ricardo Mones" <ricardo.mones at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 6/14/07, Massimiliano Calamelli <mcalamelli at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:00:46 +0900
> > > Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hmm, I couldn't reproduce it.
> > > >
> > > > Thinking from the taskbar being flashing, it is possible that an
> > > > alert dialog (SSL warning etc.) appeared somewhere and the main
> > > > window was blocked.
> > >
> > > I think you're right. Sometimes i've a prob with SSL cert from my
> > > email provider: SSL dialog appears, asking me what it have to do
> > > with new cert, but if Sylpheed's main window isn't focused i can't
> > > click on SSL dialog.
> >
> > As none of the two configured accounts I have use SSL it only can be
> > the password dialog. But then I guess the problem affects all these
> > dialogs, probably because they're made with the same function.
>
> I've finally managed to reproduce the problem :)
> This only occurs if you have minimized the window when auto-checking
> is executed, and any dialogs popup.
>
> You can workaroud this by pressing Escape key to cancel the invisible
> dialog.
>
> I will try to fix that :)

Right, workaround works fine here too, thanks!

I guess un-minimizing the window before showing popups is the common
solution, I've seen other applications doing it, maybe to workaround
this windows feature :)

regards,
-- 
Ricardo Mones.
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