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(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #27)
> ISTM we only need to fix a couple bugs to make this good enough to send out for wider testing. What do others think?
Generally send in background worked fine when we first implemented it, however, there were two big issues that we never solved at the time:
* the user's expectations around what happens to unsent messages at shutdown
* the potential dataloss issues at shutdown (e.g. if a message fails to be copied to a folder on shutdown, what should happen?).
Many of the blocking bugs are related to these two big issues, and these were what blocked it from being enabled 10 or so years ago. They need careful thinking about and the various possible routes examining.
iirc, handling some of this on shutdown wasn't easy to do when we looked at it many years ago (e.g. bug 459376). That may have changed now.