1892143 - Setting limits on local folders storage deletes messages from server as well.

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[omega.19994]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/123.0.0.0

Steps to reproduce:

I went to settings, "privacy and security", "account settings".

On the left hand menu I went to "Local folders", "Disk space"

I set my thunderbird to delete all messages but those with less than 60 days of age.

Actual results:

Thunderbird deleted those messages ONLY for one account locally... then these messages were also deleted from the email server.

Expected results:

Thunderbird should have deleted the emails locally, and not from the server.

Comment 1

[omega.19994]

Thunderbird should have deleted the emails locally, and not from the server.

Addendum: The messages should also have been deleted for both accounts on the client.

Comment 2

[Alfred Peters [:infofrommozilla]]

Question: The e-mail was moved from a POP3 account to the local folder and the setting in the POP3 account is:

[X] Leave messages on server
   ...
   [X] Until I delete them

Then this is the intended behavior. The e-mail only remains untouched on the server until it is deleted in TB. Why and where it's deleted is irrelevant.

Comment 3

[omega.19994]

(In reply to Alfred Peters [:infofrommozilla] from comment #2)

Question: The e-mail was moved from a POP3 account to the local folder and the setting in the POP3 account is:

[X] Leave messages on server
   ...
   [X] Until I delete them

Then this is the intended behavior. The e-mail only remains untouched on the server until it is deleted in TB. Why and where it's deleted is irrelevant.

Both servers are SMTP. Neither is POP3.

Comment 4

[Alfred Peters [:infofrommozilla]]

(In reply to omega.19994 from comment #3)

(In reply to Alfred Peters [:infofrommozilla] from comment #2)

Question: The e-mail was moved from a POP3 account to the local folder and the setting in the POP3 account is:

[X] Leave messages on server
   ...
   [X] Until I delete them

Then this is the intended behavior. The e-mail only remains untouched on the server until it is deleted in TB. Why and where it's deleted is irrelevant.

Both servers are SMTP. Neither is POP3.

SMTP is only responsible for sending e-mail.
And which "both" servers? "Local Folders" isn't a server at all.

Comment 5

[omega.19994]

The emails I have configured are from Hotmail and Gmail respectively. I want to delete emails (Or relocate them) so that Thunderbird will crash less often but if I delete it seems to delete in the server as well, which is not in my interest.