When the preference "show send dialog" is activated and the dialog for
sending a mail is showed, the claws main windows doesn't react anymore.
Until the message is sent and the send dialog disappears.
When this preference isn't activated, the mails are sent in the
background (other thread) and the main window always reacts on user
input.
Would be great if that would also be the case when showing the send
dialog.
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  990 testing         www.debian-multimedia.org
  990 testing         security.debian.org
  990 testing         secure-testing.debian.net
  990 testing         mirror.switch.ch
  600 unstable        mirror.switch.ch
  600 unstable        deb.opera.com
  200 experimental    mirror.switch.ch
--- Package information. ---
Depends                       (Version) | Installed
=======================================-+-===============
libaspell15                   (>= 0.60) | 0.60.5-1
libc6                      (>= 2.6.1-1) | 2.6.1-1+b1
libcompfaceg1                           | 1:1.5.2-4
libetpan11                  (>= 0.52-1) | 0.52-1
libglib2.0-0                (>= 2.14.0) | 2.14.0-2
libgnomeprint2.2-0          (>= 2.17.0) | 2.18.0-2
libgnomeprintui2.2-0        (>= 2.17.0) | 2.18.0-2
libgtk2.0-0              (>= 2.10.12-3) | 2.10.13-1
libice6                    (>= 1:1.0.0) | 2:1.0.4-1
libldap2                  (>= 2.1.17-1) | 2.1.30.dfsg-13.5
libpango1.0-0               (>= 1.18.1) | 1.18.1-1
libpisock9                              | 0.12.2-10
libsm6                                  | 2:1.0.3-1+b1
libssl0.9.8               (>= 0.9.8e-1) | 0.9.8e-6

hi,
this still happens with the package in stable.
claws-mail:
  Installed: 3.5.0-2.1
  Candidate: 3.5.0-2.1
  Version table:
 *** 3.5.0-2.1 0

kk

This problem still exists in 3.7.6. Is there going to be any change?

  AFAIK not in 3.7.7 (scheduled for next week).

  You call it a "problem" but I don't really see the point of having the
  progress window shown while what you really want to do is some other task
  in some other application's window and therefore don't paying attention to
  it.

  Maybe what you really miss is a kind of 'background sending has finished'
  notification or something like that?

Ricardo Mones <mones@debian.org> wrote:

The point is that sometimes I am eager to see a mail being sent (for
example that super-important message for my boss or whatever) and
would like the feedback "The mail was successfully sent" as soon as
possible.

OTOH, if I have to send a number of big messages with big attachments
to a number of different people, I don’t like to wait for the first
message to be sent to start writing the second one – queuing the
messages or disabling the "sending"-window is the current workaround,
but I don’t really see the point in blocking the whole application
when this is obviously not necessary (because it isn’t blocked w/o
the sending window).

I agree, though, that a notification would be a good thing to have :)

Best regards,

Claudius