357915 - Thunderbird does not report failure to delete an IMAP mailbox

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(MailNews Core :: Networking: IMAP, defect)

Description

[Michael Schaap]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0 mscha/1968.9.17
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 2.0b1pre (Windows/20061024)

If deletion of an IMAP mailbox fails (for instance, it is in use by another mail application), Thunderbird reports no error.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Thunderbird, and open the mailbox you intend to delete.
2. Start some other mail application (or Thunderbird on another machine), log onto the same account, and open the mailbox you intend to delete.
3. In the first instance of Thunderbird, right-click on the mailbox in question, and choose "Delete"
4. The mailbox is removed from the list of mailboxes.
5. After restarting Thunderbird, the mailbox is back.

Actual Results:  
The mailbox is not removed, but there is no error message.

Expected Results:  
There should be an error message stating that the mailbox could not be deleted, and why.

The IMAP communication in this case couldn't be clearer:

    14 delete "Mail/fee"
    14 NO Mailbox Mail/fee is in use by another process

Note that this was tested using UW imapd version 2006c.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Which deletion model in Thunderbird are you using to see this?

Comment 2

[Michael Schaap]

What do you mean?  Move to trash / mark as deleted / delete immediately?  That is only for deleting messages, while this is about deleting folders.

Comment 3

[Michael Schaap]

Oh, wait...  I never realized that this setting is used for deletion of folders too.
In any case, I have "mark as deleted" set, which, for folders, basically does "delete immediately".

Comment 4

[Scott MacGregor]

I don't think we are going to get to this for thunderbird 2. I would be interested in knowing if this is a regression from 1.5.0.9.

Comment 5

[Michael Schaap]

No, it's not a regression from 1.5.0.*; it behaves exactly the same as 2.0b2.

Comment 7

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

(In reply to comment #0)
>     14 delete "Mail/fee"
>     14 NO Mailbox Mail/fee is in use by another process
> Note that this was tested using UW imapd version 2006c.

The mail folder is "MIX format folder of UW-IMAP"? If yes, issue of "NO to delete command from UW-IMAP" itself is being processed in Bug 357911.

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #7) 
> [Is] The mail folder is "MIX format folder of UW-IMAP"? If yes, issue of "NO to
> delete command from UW-IMAP" itself is being processed in Bug 357911.

good report, but we're at the stage of INCOMPLETE without more information
=> incomplete
additional feedback welcome