Closed Bug 128744 Opened 23 years ago Closed 14 years ago

Remove account does not delete files

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect)

Product:
MailNews Core
Component:
Backend
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 274452

People

(Reporter: machelp, Unassigned)

References

Details

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:0.9.8+)
Gecko/20020301
BuildID:    2002030108

Removing a mail account using the Mail and Newsgroup Account Settings sheet
removes the account from the available account list, but it does not delete the
assoicated mail folder from the Library/Mozilla folder.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Remove  an existing mail account.
Confirmed using FizzillaCFM/2002041712 (RC1).

Recreating the same e-mail account doesn't re-use the old folder, either. A new
folder is created for that account, such as mail.mac-1.com, leaving the original
mail.mac.com folder.

Revising Summary.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Summary: Removing mail account does not delete mail database folders → Delete mail folder from filesystem when account is removed in Mozilla
This is also true for news and also in Linux. Changing summary, OS.

pi
OS: MacOS X → All
Hardware: Macintosh → All
Summary: Delete mail folder from filesystem when account is removed in Mozilla → Remove account does not delete files
*** Bug 138206 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
mass re-assign.
Assignee: racham → sspitzer
*** Bug 94967 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Blocks: 172730
Blocks: 122274
The deleting resp. reusing of the mail files and folders must not be 
unconditional. Mozilla should always ask if it should do this.
Some people need that the mail files remain intact after removing an account.
*** Bug 205736 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 221769 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I agree with aceman, that Mozilla should ask before deleting the personal
folder, even if the re-use of old mail files isn't always easy and won't happen
very often.
*** Bug 226444 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
on win2k and XP 2003123109 it works (Mozilla asks if the personal files should
be deleted)
Anyone to test it on Linux/mac correct me if you still see it!

I suggest marking it works4me/solved
Has someone fixed the bug without loging the fact, or did it just disappear by
sheer miracle? The former leaves room for improvements in bug-handling routines
and the latter suggests prayer and shamanism as more efficient development
systems than the currrent one. In any case, in my linux/redhat/1.4.1 the bug is
still there. If there was a change, it came with 1.5.

comment 12: haha
comemnt 11: Are you sure you're talking about Mailnews account removal (*part*
of a profile) and not the whole Mozilla profile?
The current 1.8 trunk 2004102004 win32 still has this bug.  When I remove an
IMAP account the account is removed but not the content from the user's hard drive.

This is a security issue especially for consultants who move between clients and
must conform to NDAs.  How many people have deleted mail accounts only to still
be carring intellectual property around which they have no legal right to do so?
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
>This is a security issue
i have to agree, all the files of the accounts i deleted 
are still there with thunderbird 1.0 under linux.
why can thunderbird not ask and delete the files 
when an account is removed ?
Assignee: sspitzer → mail
Product: Core → MailNews Core
Assignee: mail → nobody
Component: MailNews: Account Manager → MailNews: Backend
Product: Mozilla Application Suite → Core
QA Contact: nbaca → backend
bug 274452 has more info and dups, so duping to there
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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