[sylpheed:31351] Re: locked while automatically downloading new messages

[Randy Dunlap]

On Fri, 25 May 2007 17:23:51 -0300 Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Just reporting a misbehavior:
> 
> A few moments ago I was composing a message, and browsing in the Attach file
> dialog to (obviously) attach a file.  Sylpheed started downloading new
> messages in background (I use its automatic fetch), but then I could not
> attach the file (or any other), but could browse elsewhere.
> 
> Also, I couldn't stop the automatic fetch, because the dialog wouldn't let
> me click the Stop button (I tried, but nothing happened).  Only after
> Sylpheed finished downloading messages it responded again to my requests,
> being completelly livelocked while downloading (ie, the UI was being refreshed
> as usual, but I couldn't do anything useful).
> 
> Perhaps a good way to reproduce this is to mail yourself a message with a
> big attachment (enough to use your bandwidth for a minute or so), set Sylpheed
> to automatic download (without download window) to a short time and then
> compose a new message. Leave the attach dialog open, and when Sylpheed starts
> downloading, check if you're livelocked as I was.
> 
> Comments?

I disable auto. downloads because of this...  Not great.
If it was truly a background task, that would be OK, but it's not,
it interferes with other normal use of sylpheed.

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~Randy