150911 - Trash folder wont empty

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Networking: IMAP, defect)

Description

[Ted Malone]

I have read several other bugs and tried workarounds that I mention through this
description.  I am still unable to create a Trash folder that will successfully
empty.

I am using a corporate IMAP mail account hosted from a Sun workstation (model
and OS unknown).  I am running Mozilla release build 1.0 on Windows 2000 with
the most recent service patches installed.  My prior mail setup was Netscape 4.7
with the same mail server.  Mozilla copied over my preferences upon startup. 
Receiving mail works fine.  All of my mail filters work fine.  I can
subscribe/unsubscribe from folders that exist on my IMAP server.  For some
reason I cannot empty my trash folder.  When I try to empty it, I get the
following Alert: "The current command did not succeed.  The mail server
responded: SELECT failed: Can't open mailbox : no such mailbox."  From this
point on, I cannot delete messages in my Inbox.  If I try to delete a message in
my Inbox, I get the following Alert: "The current command did not succeed.  The
mail server responded: UID COPY failed: Can't append to mailbox : no such mailbox."

At this point, if I open my Trash folder I can see the messages that have been
previously deleted.  If I go back to my Inbox, I can read and delete messages
normally.  The problems start back up again when I try to empty the Trash
folder.  At that point, I can't delete messages again until I look at the
contents of the Trash folder, and I can find no way of emptying the trash short
of deleting the Trash file on my IMAP server.

I have tried referring to my IMAP server by it's IP address instead of by name
because I saw a bug that IMAP servers that were named imap could cause problems
with Trash folders.  This does not work, and there are no other aliases on my
companies network for the imap server.  I also tried using the fully qualified
name and that didn't work either.  I tried removing MSF file for "Trash" in my
mozilla settings directory for my imap server thinking that it might create a
new MSF file that would fix the problem.  It created the new entry, but the
problem still exists.

Comment 1

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

Reporter: Can you reproduce this bug with a recent build of Mozilla (for
example, 1.4 RC1)? If so, then please comment again with details. If not, then
please resolve this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks.

Comment 2

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

no response-->resolving wfm