1277771 - after an account is removed, a lingering Sent folder (special folder specified in a different account) can't be deleted

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 100242

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[u328884]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.9) Gecko/20100101 Goanna/2.0 Firefox/38.9 PaleMoon/26.2.1
Build ID: 20160406094806

Steps to reproduce:

In TBird, I deleted 2 accounts: '/mail/namecheap/' & '/mail/webmasterworld/'. Each had a sent mail target folder that is a subfolder of a different account (account 'X') -- history: when I specified that sent mail be put into '/mail/x/namecheap/' & '/mail/x/webmasterworld/', those folders turned into blue postage stamps.

Later, I deleted '/mail/namecheap/' & '/mail/webmasterworld/'.


Actual results:

'/mail/x/namecheap/' & '/mail/x/webmasterworld/' remained blue postage stamps and can't be deleted.


Expected results:

'/mail/x/namecheap/' & '/mail/x/webmasterworld/' should have turned into regular folders.

Comment 1

[u328884]

This is the 2nd time I've reported this bug.

Is there a workaround?

How can I force '/mail/x/namecheap/' & '/mail/x/webmasterworld/' to become ordinary folders so that I can delete them?

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to Mark Filipak from comment #1)
> This is the 2nd time I've reported this bug.

In this list? 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&product=Core&product=Firefox&product=MailNews%20Core&product=NSPR&product=Thunderbird&product=Toolkit&emailreporter1=1&emailtype1=exact&bugidtype=include&email1=MarkFilipak.mozilla%40gmail.com&list_id=13052135

> Is there a workaround?
> 
> How can I force '/mail/x/namecheap/' & '/mail/x/webmasterworld/' to become
> ordinary folders so that I can delete them?

look for the folderflags addon

Comment 4

[u328884]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk, NI for questions) from comment #2)
> (In reply to Mark Filipak from comment #1)
> > Is there a workaround?
> look for the folderflags addon

It worked like a charm. Thank you, Wayne! And, it's well designed. With no reading at all, I brought up the folder properties, saw the 'Flags' tab, and resent the 'Sent' flags for two obsolete folders. When I eventually deleted the folders, TBird went "away" for a long, long, time (with no indication of what it was doing), but it eventually came back.

Regarding bug: I expect that when I remove an account, the 'Sent' folder would be either deleted, or at least marked as not-'Sent' (not blue postage stamp).

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Turns out this is a duplicate

Comment 6

[u328884]

Nice work, Wayne!