Re: [Patch] Fix progress dialogue on error (Was: Good news)

Hi Albrecht,

On 2018.01.08 12:55, Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> Am 07.01.18 20:33 schrieb(en) Jack:
>>> Thanks!  A stupid bug, not sending the “finalise” notification to  
>>> the dialogue if opening the connection fails.  Trivial patch is  
>>> attached…
>> Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work.  (Identical results with  
>> autotools and meson builds).  I changed one of the yahoo servers to  
>> TLS, wait for the timeout, get the popup error, "Check" button  
>> re-enabled, but progress dialog remains showing with that one server.
> 
> This is strange…  I tried “inbound.att.net” as server with bogus  
> account information (user and password “test”).
> 
> When using TLS (i.e. port 110 with STLS), no connection can be  
> established, and the connection times out with a socket timeout error.
> 
> When using POP3S, the connection can be established, but the login  
> times out after one minute (debug output w/ the proposed log patch):
> 
[snip debug output...]

> But in *both* cases the progress dialogue is properly finalised after  
> the timeout!  There is no other code path where the dialogue is  
> triggered.  Are you sure you re-built everything after applying the  
> patch?  It basically boils down to shifting the finalise notification  
> out of the “if (pop != NULL)” scope (around line 692 in  
> libbalsa/mailbox_pop3.c), so it's really trivial.

I have no idea what the problem was, but with a completely clean build,  
it does work now as advertised.  As with a different project, I think  
by failing to always "make uninstall" before compiling a new version,  
various pieces get left around, and eventually gum up the works.

Jack
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