242501 - constantly getting same messages from 10Nov03 through 21Nov03 back in mailbox

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(MailNews Core :: Database, defect)

Description

[John Munn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

A series of about 38 messages from 10Nv03 through 21Nov03 keep reappearing in my
local mailbox, depsite being deleted mutiple times (sometimes several times in
sucession if I log out and come back in) to include emptying the trash.  My
email account is with Comcast. 

As far as "reprodcuing it", I do not do anthing but log on and more often than
not. there they are.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1.NA
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
NA

Expected Results:  
NA

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

Probably is the index file for your local folder corrupt. Close Mozilla entirely
and go to your Mozilla profile, then to the Mail subdirectory and there to the
local mail account and delete the inbox.msf (or which mail folder it is) file.
Not the files without an extension! After that compact all folders inside Mail &
News.

for the location of your profile, see http://www.holgermetzger.de/pdl.html

Comment 2

[Jesiah S]

->Mailnews:Mail Database

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

Either they are getting downloaded from the pop3 server again, or for some
reason, the messages don't have an x-mozilla-status flag in the mail folder, and
the summary file is getting regenerated, and we're losing the fact that these
messages have been deleted. You should be able to tell if they're getting
re-downloaded because we tell you how many messages we download, or if the
summary file is getting regenerated, because we put up a status message to that
effect. But in either case, you should try using a 1.7 build, if you're really
using 1.5

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

This bug has had no comments for a long time. Statistically, we have found that
bug reports that have not been confirmed by a second user after three months are
highly unlikely to be the source of a fix to the code.

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Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.