1507804 - "Select this folder for offline use" settings are inconsistent between create and move, does not persist

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[u621994]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:63.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/63.0

Steps to reproduce:

Original report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/1796777

Original report filed using Ubuntu 16.04 and Thunderbird 52.9.1
Confirmed using Ubuntu 18.10 and Thunderbird 60.2.1

In order to confirm the above report in Ubuntu I created a folder in one of my IMAP accounts where all messages are set to be downloaded.  The "Select this folder for offline use" checkbox was selected as I would expect sub-folders to inherit the properties of the main folder. I then moved this test folder elsewhere in the folder tree.




Actual results:

The "Select this folder for offline use" check box was cleared.


Expected results:

The "Select this folder for offline use" check box should remain checked.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Walt does this also fail for you?

Comment 2

[WaltS48 [:walts48]]

It did the first time I moved the folder.

I created a test folder at the account level.
Checked that "Select this folder for offline use" was enabled.
Moved it to be under the [Gmail] folder where I have Drafts, Sent Mail, Trash, Spam, Bugzilla and a couple other folders.
Checked "Properties > Synchronization" and the check mark was removed.
Reset the check mark to enable "Select this folder for offline use".
Then moved it again several times and it remained checked.

HTH