1966810 - Archival of RSS Items gets sent to Archives of default identity

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, defect)

Description

[Timothy Arnold]

Attachment: Screenshot_20250515_203514.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:138.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/138.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Have a Gmail account logged in and as your primary account
2. Setup RSS Feeds with active items
3. View RSS Feed Items
4. Archive the RSS Feed Item with the shortcut A

Actual results:

RSS Feed Items start showing on my Gmail All Mail Folder (Online)
See attached picture

It should also be noted that archival speed has slowed precipitously in the recent version.

Expected results:

Archival of RSS Items should only be archived locally instead of being sent to cloud account and taking up additional space.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Feeds do not have "Copies & Folders" settings, so default identity is used. This is expected.
https://searchfox.org/comm-central/rev/0165864bd792e989a9582405e4cce8ab4fce1b6d/mail/modules/MessageArchiver.sys.mjs#111-129

Comment 2

[Timothy Arnold]

(In reply to Magnus Melin [:mkmelin] from comment #1)

Feeds do not have "Copies & Folders" settings, so default identity is used. This is expected.
https://searchfox.org/comm-central/rev/0165864bd792e989a9582405e4cce8ab4fce1b6d/mail/modules/MessageArchiver.sys.mjs#111-129

Is this a recent change as I don't recall seeing this behaviour in the past? I can't say that this is something I would expect as an end user, as this will result in additional storage space being used on the default identity if it's a cloud account. Are there plans to create Copies & Folders settings for RSS feeds?

For use case clarification:
The use case for archiving the RSS feed items is to have copies of the news items locally searchable but not in the main RSS Feed inbox. This would be separate from the "mail" side of the organization structure since that is exclusively with correspondence.

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

It's been like this forever. Perhaps you update what your default account is.

Comment 4

[Timothy Arnold]

Well, I haven't changed my default account. Nevertheless, if you believe this is expected then I will close this out or move it to request for enhancement. I think there is value in treating the copies and folders of RSS differently than the other accounts.

Comment 5

[Hartmut Welpmann [:welpy-cw]]

I ran mozregression on a profile with an ordinary IMAP account and one subscribed RSS feed. Archiving directly beneath the RSS account works until https://hg-edge.mozilla.org/comm-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=da82ca780f5b2960f5dd7e8c8986f06a820711b1&tochange=0b6c34cbc5e01840b646aff1bcf60dbae5ac636b.

See also bug 473217 and bug 1360857 which introduced and fixed that behavior.

Comment 7

[Hartmut Welpmann [:welpy-cw]]

Attachment: Bug 1966810 - Restore archiving of feed messages directly under the feed account. r=#thunderbird-reviewers

Comment 8

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/cf58558da62a
Restore archiving of feed messages directly under the feed account. r=darktrojan