Using 1999042908 on Linux Doesn't happen on Win32 Mac ? I believe has same problem... Get New Messages does nothing (even when there are new messages to retrieve). Terminal window displays: nsMsgAppCire::SetWindow():Getting the webshell of interest. No crash, just doesn't work at all.

Set target milestone to M5.

On today April 29 PowerPC build (1999042910), Get Message does work. My initial results was incorrect. I re-tested and Get Msg does work. I also tried it on Win32 (1999042908) it works. Confirmed on my April 29 Linux build that it does not work. I get the same results as Laurel.

Correcting Platform field and severity.

Hmm...this works like a charm on my Linux box (at least it did yesterday). However, sspitzer got a strange assertion on his machine when he tried it. So maybe there is something fishy there....I'm investigating...

Still happening on 1999043008 build, can't verify bugs 4886 & 5468 until this is fixed.

Note: for my comment about it still happening on 1999043008 this is for Linux, per comments above by Peter I don't think this is a problem on Mac. Scott also note, after closing Messenger and opening it again the messages that should have been downloaded previously with Get Msg are now in the thread window.

Adding bienvenu & putterman to the cc list. Upon further review with Esther, it looks like the messages are in fact getting downloaded but they aren't showing up in the ui. If you quit and then restart, the messages are there in the thread pane. I'm not seeing this on my debug builds but will continue to try to reproduce it.

Adding Alec to cc list. Is this possibly a duplicate of 5722? On both of these systems we were having problems with the conversion between a folder path and a uri (On Linux it resulted in paths of /u/scottip/mail//Inbox which Linux didn't seem to like). Windows was the only platform where this wasn't happening.

Interesting. I don't have a problem at all with Get Msg on Linux on 1999_05_03_08 build. (I just verified bug 5572.) I don't think there is a bug here? Mac works fine (at least on the latest build we had where mail didn't freeze - subject of another bug) Linux works fine Windows works fine I'll go and see Esther now.

Actually I do see this bug on my debug build. The messages are getting downloaded but not added to the thread pane view. I'm 99.9% sure this stuff worked fine on Linux when I checked in my changes just before M5. I'm guessing the conversion between a folder path and a URI is related to the account manager landing that came right after my check in? If that's the case then it would be a convienent excuse for the problem. =). What do you think Alec?

Using linux build 1999050308 this is now working for me. I'll check with Scott to see if we're using the same build before I verify this.

I take that back. Turns out my build was dying in one of the mailnews test apps this weekend on Linux so the executable wasn't up to date. when I fixed my build problem and re-built (so it should be the same as QA's 5/3 builds), I no longer see the problem. Looks like it got fixed between Friday morning and now. I'm guessing this had to due with the path to uri problems that Alec fixed. Alec, let me know if you don't think this was the case. Marking as fixed.

yes, I would guess that the Path2URI stuff was what was broken....

My earlier commments had the wrong bug number in it. I'm marking this bug verified. Get new messages works on Linux now. This was never a problem on the Mac or Win32.