Closed Bug 1518474 Opened 5 years ago Closed 5 years ago

maildir e-mail files in Trash/cur not removed upon emptying trash

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Untriaged
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1317117

People

(Reporter: dirk.kostrewa, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Delete an e-mail in Thunderbird

  2. Empty the trash by choosing "Empty Deleted" on the Trash folder or in the File menu

Actual results:

  1. Upon deleting an e-mail, it appears in the Trash folder in the GUI, and the actual e-mail file is moved to <ThunderbirdProfile>/ImapMail/<Server Name>/Trash/cur/<nnn>, where <nnn> is the integer identifier for the deleted e-mail file

  2. After emptying the trash, the deleted e-mail disappears in the Trash folder in the GUI, but the actual e-mail file is still in <ThunderbirdProfile>/ImapMail/<Server Name>/Trash/cur/<nnn>

Expected results:

Any deleted e-mail file should also be removed from the file system after emptying the trash.

bugzilla has removed part of my original message in the Actual Results enclosed in "<" and ">"! Here is the correct text of the Actual Results:

  1. Upon deleting an e-mail, it appears in the Trash folder in the GUI, and the actual e-mail file is moved to ThunderBirdProfile/ImapMail/ServerName/Trash/cur/nnn, where nnn is the integer identifier for the deleted e-mail file

  2. After emptying the trash, the deleted e-mail disappears in the Trash folder in the GUI, but the actual e-mail file is still in ThunderBirdProfile/ImapMail/ServerName/Trash/cur/nnn

Yes, that should be fixed in bug 1317117. Can you try a current beta version?

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 5 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE

Yes, I've downloaded the current TB beta version and quickly gave it a try today: deleted messages appeared in the TB Trash folder, but not on the file system in ThunderBirdProfile/ImapMail/ServerName/Trash/cur - is this really intended? Anyway, at least, they can't accumulate there, anymore ...

Well, that depends whether your trash is set to synchronise for offline use, usually it isn't. There's also been some discussion in bug 1498532, you might want to read the details in bug 1498532 comment #16.

Sorry for my late reply - I could only check today. I have deleted a few messages for two different IMAP accounts. For both accounts, subscription as well as offline synchronisation of the trash folders was activated. So, any change in trash folders on the server side should have been reflected in the file system, too.

Many thanks for taking care of this!

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