175326 - Use UID EXPUNGE command for moved messages

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(MailNews Core :: Networking: IMAP, enhancement)

Description

[John Mark Williams]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826

When a message is moved from an IMAP folder, could that particular message be
immediately expunged using the UID EXPUNGE command described in RFC 2359 (IMAP4
UIDPLUS extension)?

This would apply to manual moving, automatic filtering and manual deleting under
the "Move it to the Trash folder" paradigm.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure an IMAP account so that "When I delete a message: Move it to the
Trash folder".

2. Delete or move a message in a folder of that account.

3. Access that folder from an IMAP client that displays messages which have the
\Deleted flag (perhaps with a strikethrough, cross or "D").

(OR re-configure the account in Mozilla so that "When I delete a message: Mark
it as Deleted" and re-open the folder.)
Actual Results:  
All the moved and/or deleted messages are still in the mailbox, albeit in a
"deleted" state.

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should have immediately expunged the particular messages moved/deleted.

Of course, this method could be used only if the IMAP server's response to
CAPABILITY includes "UIDPLUS". Otherwise, as suggested in RFC 2359, the messages
that *already* had the \Deleted flag could have it temporarily removed with the
STORE command. As a last resort, the current behaviour could be followed.

(I think this method could also be used for *moved* messages under the "Mark it
as Deleted" paradigm, although this may be against users' expectations.)

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Ronny Adsetts]

Not certain this bug is still there in 1.5 but it's definitely there in 1.0.7.
Will try to verify at some point.

To test:

Open thunderbird, delete some email from an imap inbox, view that mailbox in
some other client (I used Horde), see the emails marked as deleted but not
purged even though they are now in the Trash too.

Don't have privs to re-open the bug.