Re: [Tools-discuss] over-zealous mail-send notification caching?

Henrik Levkowetz <henrik@levkowetz.com> Tue, 11 August 2020 12:26 UTC

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Hi Ben,

We've had one other report about this, but a straightforward attempt at
reproducing it in the development environment hasn't been successful.
Which browser version (or versions) do you use?


Regards,

	Henrik

On 2020-08-11 02:59, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm not really sure the best way to describe this, but recently (the past
> few days, maybe) I've been getting a lot more of the yellow "Email was
> sent" notices at the top of the page after I perform an operation that
> sends mail.  In particular, I'll get the notice about mail sent by a
> previous operation (just now I got some from as far back as August 7th),
> and having previously dismissed any given notification does not seem to
> prevent me from seeing it again after a subsequent operation.
> 
> Having the whole page taken up by "Email was sent" notices is a bit
> distracting :)
> 
> I'm not sure how much more information is needed for an actionable report;
> I'll try to take better notes as to whether I only see this after an action
> that itself generates an email (vs other page loads).  Possibly relatedly
> (to the over-zealous caching), I have been seeing sporadic instances where
> doing something that sends mail (possibly only entering a ballot position,
> but I'm not 100% sure) leaves me at a page other than the page I was coming
> from (i.e., some other document entirely).  Perhaps a common thread is that
> I have multiple datatracker tabs open and I've done some other operation in
> between starting to ballot and finishing, and the operation in the other
> tab overwrites the per-tab state for where to send me back to?  This has
> been happening for longer than the overly persistent "Email was sent"
> notices, though -- months, probably.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ben
> 
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