1427409 - Compacting of inbox should wait until no action is occurring

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 439089

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Dick]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3239.84 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Started working down my inbox previewing and deleting messages when it is interrupted by compacting.


Actual results:

This happens sometimes a few times during the day. I will be reading through my preview pane of emails and deleting some of them, when all of a sudden, control is taken from me and the software starts compacting my email box. I then lose the position I am in, in the preview pane, and have to find my way back to where I was when the compacting is over.


Expected results:

The software should wait until things have gone quiescent for a certain period of time (a minute or so?). If no one is messing with the program, then start the compacting process. If I close the program right away and you need to do compacting, then compact the boxes before closing down.

Comment 1

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Good idea. You know that you can turn auto-compaction off, right? Then you can compact manually when it's convenient for you.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Compact is a hydra with many heads, most of which have been reported and can be found via bug 498274.  The complaint of "message / message position lost during compact" is bug 520115.  Thie summary of this bug "Compacting of inbox should wait until no action is occurring" is bug 439089