1115328 - Erase messages content when moving from imap to local folder

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, defect)

Description

[Eric Forgeot]

Attachment: thunderbird_bug_2014-12-24.jpg

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0
Build ID: 20141013200257

Steps to reproduce:

I'm used to move the messages stored in my inbox folder (imap) to my local folder every 6 months or so. I selected many of them (around 1200) with click + shift, then I dragged and dropped them to my local folder.



Actual results:

Around half of my messages were "emptied" during this process: the part which was correctly copied kept the original received date, but the other part only kept the flag if the message was transfered or answered. Everything else (topic, content, date) were erased for ever (see attached screenshot).



Expected results:

All the message should have been correctly transfered between the imap account into the local folders. I made this several times in the past, with a huge amount of messages, and never got this problem so far. 

I'm using TB 31 on linux, but a collegue of mine got exactly the same problem, several times some months ago (don't know the TB version but it was on MS Windows XP, with only a few messages moved, like 10 or 20). I don't know if it's a regression in TB or something else. On the windows computer, I studied the content of the mbox and the messages were really blanked (only the date when they were copied remained).

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Eric, do you stil lsee this when using a current version?

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Needs more info