1418117 - Moving folders creates copy instead

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, defect)

Description

[hife]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/56.0
Build ID: 20171003101344

Steps to reproduce:

1. Drag and drop a folder (that may have a filter set up to move mail to it) from a POP3-Account to another.
2. After this creates a copy, delete the original folder.

(This happened for multiple folders while rearranging some folder structures.)


Actual results:

1. The folder and all contained mail is copied to the new location.
2. A possible filter now moves mail to the deleted folder, not the copy.


Expected results:

1. The folder should have been moved, not copied.
2. The filter should have been updated to the moved folder.

Comment 1

[Benjamin Flanagin]

Sorry for the delay in getting to this bug; However, the issues you have found aren't bugs. They could be argued to be "bad design" by some, but they both works as they are meant to.

1. You're moving a folder from one server to another, which requires TB to send each mail message to the new server as you are dragging and dropping the files the default action is Copy not move.

2. Filters aren't per folder they are per account so even though you move a folder you don't move the filter. Again this is per designed not a bug.