159323 - IMAP error when moving mail between accounts causes move to terminate

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 83396

(MailNews Core :: Networking: IMAP, enhancement)

Description

[Barry de la Rosa]

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When trying to move large numbers of emails between IMAP accounts, an error in
an unspecified email causes the entire operation to abort. This is annoying for
two reasons:

1) it doesn't indicate which mails have the errors
2) it terminates the move operation so that the mails without errors don't get
moved.

A more user-friendly approach would be to continue moving emails so that the
emails left would (obviuosly) be the ones with errors. Otherwsie some way of
flagging up mails that can't be moved would be ideal.

The sorts of errors I was getting were:

- mail contains blank lines (?)
- mail contains dodgy headers (these seem to be the emails with attachments,
although not always)

These errors don't stop the mail from being displayed in MailNews however.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select multiple emails in one acount
2. Drag and drop them to a mailbox in another account

Actual Results:  If any of the emails have the errors mentioned above, an error
will be displayed and the operation will be aborted.

Expected Results:  Either carried on moving the emails without errors, or
indicating which of the emails had errors.

Comment 1

[Barry de la Rosa]

Another anoying thing: when the move fails, the emails which have been moved up
to that point are still copied, but not deleted from the starting mailbox. This
way I am ending up with tons of duplicate emails in the target mailbox.

Ideally I'd like to see the emails with errors remaining in the source mailbox,
and the emails without errors in the target mailbox.

Comment 2

[Karen Huang]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 83396 ***

Comment 3

[Karen Huang]

Verified.