1381217 - Not sending deleted messages to the appointed folder (gmail)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 533140

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[animajosser]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:54.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/54.0
Build ID: 20170612121707

Steps to reproduce:

I have a directory on my gmail account with the label: "Recycle bin (no autoclean)". I did this because I wanted my deleted messages in a separate folder. I have this account connected with thunderbird and It automatically selects Trash (it does detect it as a standard Gmail label and files it under "[Gmail]"). I see my folder "Recycle bin (no autoclean)" not under Gmail, but just under that account. I went to account settings, to Server Settings and, as with all my accounts, selected under "When I delete a message" - "move to this folder" "Recycle bin (no autoclean)".


Actual results:

After restarting the GUI, I see that the icon of "Recycle bin (no autoclean)" and that of the standard "Trash" is that of a trashcan. But shortly after that, that of "Recycle bin (no autoclean)" changes back to that of a normal directory and Trash stays that of a trashcan. When I delete a message it just goes to "Trash"


Expected results:

After restarting the GUI, the icon of "Recycle bin (no autoclean)" should be that of a trashcan and that of "Trash" that of a directory. When I delete a message it should go to "Recycle bin (no autoclean)".

Comment 1

[Alfred Peters [:infofrommozilla]]

(In reply to animajosser from comment #0)
> I have a directory on my gmail account with the label: "Recycle bin (no
> autoclean)". I did this because I wanted my deleted messages in a separate
> folder. I have this account connected with thunderbird and It automatically
> selects Trash (it does detect it as a standard Gmail label and files it
> under "[Gmail]"). I see my folder "Recycle bin (no autoclean)" not under
> Gmail, but just under that account.

Is the behavior documented anywhere?

> After restarting the GUI, I see that the icon of "Recycle bin (no
> autoclean)" and that of the standard "Trash" is that of a trashcan. But
> shortly after that, that of "Recycle bin (no autoclean)" changes back to
> that of a normal directory and Trash stays that of a trashcan. When I delete
> a message it just goes to "Trash"

This is likely to be intended behavior:

<https://dxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/mailnews/imap/src/nsImapIncomingServer.cpp#1550>
| // If we're a gmail server, we clear the trash flags from folder(s)
| // without the kImapXListTrash flag. For normal servers, we clear
| // the trash folder flag if the folder name doesn't match the
| // pref trash folder name.
| if (isGMailServer)

> Expected results:

I'm not sure, if this will work, but you may try setting the preference:
"mail.server.default.allows_specialfolders_usage" to false.

Menu: Tools -> Options -> //Advanced\\ -> /General\ -> [Config Editor]

Comment 2

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

(In reply to Alfred Peters from comment #1)
> I'm not sure, if this will work, but you may try setting the preference:
> "mail.server.default.allows_specialfolders_usage" to false.
Since this is a "per server" preference, you'd have to try mail.server.serverXX.allows_specialfolders_usage where you have to replace XX with the number of the server in your configuration.

Comment 3

[animajosser]

Although it was'nt in Menu: Tools -> Options -> //Advanced\\ -> /General\ -> [Config Editor], but in Topbar: Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Config Editor and it was not a per server preference (there were no per server preferences for this setting), it didn't work, unfortunately. I set "mail.server.default.allows_specialfolders_usage" to false by double clicking the setting, but when I restarted the gui, it just did the same as described above.

Comment 4

[Alfred Peters [:infofrommozilla]]

(In reply to animajosser from comment #3)
> Although it was'nt in Menu: Tools -> Options -> //Advanced\\ -> /General\ ->
> [Config Editor], but in Topbar: Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Config
> Editor

So you're using SeaMonkey!? I don't think it makes a difference, but you should have already mentioned it.

>  and it was not a per server preference (there were no per server
> preferences for this setting),

You would have to create it. But, since the setting does not work anyway...

>  it didn't work, unfortunately. I set
> "mail.server.default.allows_specialfolders_usage" to false by double
> clicking the setting, but when I restarted the gui, it just did the same as
> described above.

It was worth a try. But it looks like it is hard coded.
I'm out of ideas.

Comment 5

[animajosser]

I don't understand what you're talking about. I use Mozilla Thunderbird 52.2.1 (64-bit). In no way I'm using SeaMonkey.

Comment 6

[Alfred Peters [:infofrommozilla]]

(In reply to animajosser from comment #5)
> I don't understand what you're talking about. I use Mozilla Thunderbird
> 52.2.1 (64-bit). In no way I'm using SeaMonkey.

Then excuse me. This is the menu position by my SM.
Since this is insignificant for the bug, we leave it at that.

Comment 8

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Looks like a known problem. Bug 533140 has some reasoning.