Complete Send In Background

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Status

Complete Send In Background function to use Outbox to send messages
Stage	On hold
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Release target	`
Health	OK
Status note	up for grabs

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Team

Product manager	`
Directly Responsible Individual	Mark Banner
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Open issues/risks

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Stage 1: Definition

1. Feature overview

Send in Background is intended to remove the interrupt of the user between clicking on send and having a visual sudo-block to be able to continue using and processing email.

2. Users & use cases

When a user hits send, we currently display a progress dialog whilst the send is in progress and the file is saved to the sent folder.

With send in background we would save the email to the local outbox, remove the compose window from the display and send the email.

This allows the user to continue working with email, whilst still sending the email.

If there is an error whilst sending the email, then Thunderbird can decide what to do, whether to try again later, or notify the user, or a mixture of both.

One area we have to be careful with is shutdown - if Thunderbird is in the process of sending an email, we shouldn't abort that - but allow it to be finished (whilst also informing the user). Additionally, if emails are waiting to be sent, we should potentially alert about those as well.

3. Dependencies

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4. Requirements

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Non-goals

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Stage 2: Design

5. Functional specification

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6. User experience design

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Stage 3: Planning

7. Implementation plan

bug 511079 is the tracking bug.

8. Reviews

Security review

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Privacy review

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Localization review

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Accessibility

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Quality Assurance review

Thunderbird/TestPlans/SendInBackground

Operations review

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Stage 4: Development

9. Implementation

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Stage 5: Release

10. Landing criteria

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With send in background we would save the email to the local outbox, remove the compose window from the display and send the email.

This allows the user to continue working with email, whilst still sending the email.

If there is an error whilst sending the email, then Thunderbird can decide what to do, whether to try again later, or notify the user, or a mixture of both.

One area we have to be careful with is shutdown - if Thunderbird is in the process of sending an email, we shouldn't abort that - but allow it to be finished (whilst also informing the user). Additionally, if emails are waiting to be sent, we should potentially alert about those as well. |Feature dependencies=` |Feature requirements=` |Feature non-goals=` |Feature functional spec=` |Feature ux design=` |Feature implementation plan=bug 511079 is the tracking bug. |Feature security review=` |Feature privacy review=` |Feature localization review=` |Feature accessibility review=` |Feature qa review=Thunderbird/TestPlans/SendInBackground |Feature operations review=` |Feature implementation notes=` |Feature landing criteria=` }}

Feature details

Priority	Unprioritized
Rank	999
Theme / Goal	`
Roadmap	Thunderbird
Secondary roadmap	`
Feature list	Thunderbird
Project	`
Engineering team	`

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Team status notes

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