Comment 35 for bug 584529

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/17.0.963.79 Safari/535.11

Steps to reproduce:

Make sure you're not connected to network (in my case it's wifi, dunnow if this is relevant)
Open Thunderbird
Connect to network.
Check that the network connection works by opening a web page in a browser
Go to Thunderbird and click "get mail"

Actual results:

"looked up gmail.com" (or whatever is the mail server domain) appears on the status bar and stays there for a while. Then it disappears.
Mail is not checked, and no error message is shown.
This happens systematically, 100% of the times.

Then I click "get mail" again, and it ALWAYS works the second time.

Expected results:

thunderbird should have connected to the mail server and checked for new messages the first time.

This issue has always existed ever since I've used Thunderbird, back to version 3 or something. On older versions it was only _slightly_ better, in that you would get a baloon notification (or is it called a toast?) saying "unable to connect" and a (wrong) message on the status bar saying "no messages to download" on the first try.