When sending an email, Thunderbird says it can't save the sent email #103

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opened 2024-02-20 08:31:03 +00:00 by quentin · 0 comments
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...but the email is correctly saved. If you hit retry, you save the email twice...
I think that Thunderbird uses one TCP connection to save the email, and another one to check if the email has been correctly saved. But we don't have "read-after-write" on different TCP connections I guess.

Some ideas to confirm the bug:

  • trace thunderbird and see if my hypothesis is correct
  • reproduce the issue on a controlled environment

Some ideas to "fix" the bug:

  • Implement BURL
  • Put a load balancer / proxy routing requests based on the IP address (or, harder, based on the login)
  • Implement read-after-write (I think it would mean tweaking opportunistic_sync)
...but the email is correctly saved. If you hit retry, you save the email twice... I think that Thunderbird uses one TCP connection to save the email, and another one to check if the email has been correctly saved. But we don't have "read-after-write" on different TCP connections I guess. Some ideas to confirm the bug: - trace thunderbird and see if my hypothesis is correct - reproduce the issue on a controlled environment Some ideas to "fix" the bug: - Implement [BURL](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4468.html) - Put a load balancer / proxy routing requests based on the IP address (or, harder, based on the login) - Implement read-after-write (I think it would mean tweaking opportunistic_sync)
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quentin changed title from When sending an email, sometimes Thunderbird returns an error about not being able to save the email in the Sent folder to When sending an email, sometimes Thunderbird says it can't save the sent email 2024-02-20 08:36:35 +00:00
quentin changed title from When sending an email, sometimes Thunderbird says it can't save the sent email to When sending an email, Thunderbird says it can't save the sent email 2024-02-20 08:36:54 +00:00
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