1664169 - When Windows search is deactivated, TB still created .mozmsgs folders, using File per folder (mbox)

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: OS Integration, defect)

Description

[Christoph Zwerschke]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:80.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/80.0

Steps to reproduce:

• In the general settings, I deactivated "Allow Windows Search to search messages" .
• Closed TB and deleted all .mozmsgs folders.
• Opened TB again and received some new messages.

Actual results:

• .mozmsgs folders (e.g. INBOX.mozmsgs and Junk.mozmsgs) were newly created, and .wdseml files with copies of the new incoming messages stored in them.

Expected results:

• I expected that .mozmsgs folders and .wdseml are not created any more, since they are only used for Windows search integration which I have deactivated in TB.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Can someone else confirm?

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

in account settings > server settings > message store type
what is specified there?

Comment 3

[Christoph Zwerschke]

It says "File per folder (mbox)" but it's greyed out, in all of my accounts.

Comment 4

[Arthur K. (he/him)]

(In reply to Christoph Zwerschke from comment #3)

It says "File per folder (mbox)" but it's greyed out, in all of my accounts.

What TB version around running now?

Comment 5

[Christoph Zwerschke]

78.4.3

Comment 6

[Matthias Dill]

I can confirm this on versio 102.0.3 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.0.3) on Windows_NT 10.0 19044

Windows search is disabled. All acounts use mbox and it is greyed out.