60487 - Folder list becomes blank after "compacting" POP folder

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 34074

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect, P3)

Description

[Terry Hayes]

To reproduce:
  Use a POP server to view mail.  (I have "leave messages" and "delete on server
when deleted local" prefs set).
  Choose "Compact this folder" from the file menu.

What happens:
  The folder list becomes empty, and any message displayed in the lower pane
disappears.

What should happen:
  Probably nothing.

Comment 1

[scottputterman]

reassigning to naving

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

related: bug 60474, observing that "Compact This Folder" doesn't work if the
folder has a message."

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

if you mean thread list instead of folder list (i.e., the list of messages),
then that makes sense, and is, unfortunately, working as designed (because the
person who wrote this code couldn't figure out how to reselect the folder after
the compaction finished).

Comment 4

[Navin Gupta]

We can notify the FE on completion. This should be doable

Comment 5

[Terry Hayes]

Yes, the "list of messages in a folder".  This just bad.  Perhaps the menu item
should be disabled for POP.  What good does it do anyway?

Comment 6

[David :Bienvenu]

taking - I have a fix for this.

Comment 7

[David :Bienvenu]

well, this is sort of fixed - the thread pane gets reloaded, but selection in
the folder pane is still gone. I probably just want to remove the js code that
clears the selection in the folder pane.

Comment 8

[Aleksey Nogin]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 34074 ***

Comment 9

[Sheela Ravindran]

verfy dup