151589 - drag-and-drop of mail messages fails, causing hourglass / throobbing

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 150716

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Hal Black]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020613
BuildID:    2002061304

Drag-and-drop of multiple mail messages to move them from one folder to another
doesn't work.  Some (or no)messages will move, and the mail window stays in
"busy" state, with hourglass cursor and throbbing mozilla icon, but the messages
never move.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Select multiple mail messages in a folder.
2.Drag-and-drop those mail messages to another folder


Actual Results:  Mozilla keeps throbbing as if it were doing something, but the
messages never move.
It doesn't "hang," and some other operations are possible.

Expected Results:  Mail messages would no longer exist in the original folder,
but would move to the new folder

This is a regression.  This worked in 1.0, but now doesn't work.

Comment 1

[grylchan]

Using commercial trunk (2002061408) on win 2k:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020614

Tried drag/drop of multiple mesg between folders and/or accounts
and this works for me. Mail was successfully moved from one folder to
another.

I tried imap, pop, and local folders and I was able to drag drop mesgs
from any folder to any other folder with no problems.

Reporter what mail account are you using? Do you know what
type of mail server?

Have you tried a new profile? Maybe your profile is corrupted?

Comment 2

[Hal Black]

Try to mark at least 4 messages.  It sometimes works for me if I only try to move 2.

I have tried it in both POP and Local Mail folders, and the bug shows up in both.

No, I haven't tried it with a new profile.  Another user mentioned this bug to
me, so I tried it out on my computer, and reported it.

I will try a new profile soon.

Comment 3

[grylchan]

using commercial trunk:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020617

I still don't see the problem. I am able to drag/drop 30 mesgs
from pop->Local folders or Local Folders->Pop with no problems

Anything unique about these mesgs you are draging & dropping?

Comment 4

[Hal Black]

Okay, I created a new profile.

I create 2 folders under local mail: folder1 and folder2

In order to have some messages to move around, I imported (via the import
command) from Netscape 4.x

I select a group of messages, clicking one, then shift clicking one far below
(say 10 messages).

Then I drag from there to another local folder (imported mail was put in a local
folder, so I'm dragging from local folder to local folder).

Plain ol' text messages, no mime, no attachments.  I get a freezup.

I tried sending some mail and moving around the messages I generated via send
before I tried importing, above, and I didn't experience the problem.  Those
messages were moved from the pop send folder to the local mail send folder.

Note, this was an entirely new profile, the only thing imported from netscape
was the mail, manually, using the import command from the menu.

Comment 5

[grylchan]

Reporter,
I think you are running into bug 150716. I know that
bug deals with 'compacting folders' but it also moving multiple
mesgs is also broken.

comment from another bug:
> I noted in the folder compaction bug, this might be a dup of the folder
>compaction bug, because that also involves moving multiple messages, and
>re-using the file stream.

So you reported this bug with June 13 builds. The fix for bug 150716
didn't go in until June 13. If you could download todays build (6/17)
and confirm that you are seeing this bug that would be helpful.

As I can't see this problem with the current builds.

thanks.

Comment 6

[Hal Black]

Okay, looks like it works with today's build (3/17)!  Great!  Thanks!

Comment 7

[grylchan]

ok thanks.

resolving as dupe of bug 150716

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 150716 ***

Comment 8

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verified dup