181429 - Do *not* pop up scary confirm warning when deleting an empty folder

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[Aleksey Nogin]

Currently when a folder is deleted, Mozilla pops up a scary warning about it
being undoable and contents being lost. This is great, but not when the folder
is empty.

If a user took time to move out all the messages and submolders before deleting
the folder, then still printing the warning might give user an impression that
[s]he still forgot to move out some of the data that was there. Being quite an
experienced user, my first reaction to the warning is "wait, is it trying to say
I am deleting something different (wrong folder?) than what I though I was
deleting?" It would be nice if this warning would only pop up on non-empty folders.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

don't see myself how this is scary

Comment 2

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

This is just being discussed in TB bug 729771.

We need confirmation to guard against *accidental* deletion because the folder might still be used by internal or external filters (and perhaps because deleting the folder will (I think) physically finalize the deletion of contained deleted messages by erasing the mbox-file).

In Thunderbird, the confirmation msg is simple:

=Delete Folder=
Are you sure that you want to delete the folder 'foo'?
[Delete Folder] [Cancel]

That doesn't sound scary to me (agree with comment 1).
In Seamonkey, is there a different confirmation msg?

I wonder if the confirmation msg could be rephrased or complemented for empty folders, and/or for folders with content, e.g.

=Delete Empty Folder=
Are you sure that you want to delete the empty folder 'foo'?
[Delete Folder] [Cancel]

=Delete Folder with 1234 messages=
Are you sure that you want to delete the folder 'foo' with 1234 messages?
[Delete Folder] [Cancel]

Comment 3

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

I suspect the real status of this bug is "unconfirmed".