1273601 - mail.imap.expunge_after_delete is not triggered by a move

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Networking: IMAP, defect)

Description

[Robert Arnold]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:46.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/46.0
Build ID: 20160502172042

Steps to reproduce:

Set mail.imap.expunge_after_delete to true.  Move an email from the IMAP Inbox to a Local Folder


Actual results:

Nothing-no expunge was executed.


Expected results:

mail.imap.expunge_after_delete is triggered by "deleting" message (ie moving it to the trash).  If the message is moved (ie removed) from the IMAP folder/server to a different folder, then an explunge command to be executed.  The message has been deleted from the original location.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Hi Robert. Can you determine when it last worked for you?
And does it also fail if you have Thunderbird started in safe mode?
 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/safe-mode-thunderbird

Comment 2

[Robert Arnold]

Hi Wayne, I have never tried to use this before.  When I upgraded to version 45, I noticed the maildir option and created a new profile using it.  Then I noticed that my right-click (on the folder) compact command was missing, but I saw that this option should do what I want.

I just ran multiple tests in safe mode.  If I delete an email, the inbox is expunged.  If I move the file into my local folders, then the inbox is not expunged.  Safe mode had no effect.

Comment 4

[monperrus]

Double checked, moves do trigger expunge if option mail.imap.expunge_after_delete is set.

See calls to expunge in nsImapProtocol.cpp

case nsIImapUrl::nsImapOnlineMove
case nsIImapUrl::nsImapOnlineToOfflineMove

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Please use WORKSFORME when resolving without a patch, to help preserve accurate tracking

Comment 6

[monperrus]

Ack, thanks Wayne.