196706 - Junk mail not moved from mail folder to "Junk" folder under "Local Folders"

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Filters, defect)

Description

[Tom Hornyak]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210

Not wanting to look at each Junk folder under each of my 5 mail accounts, I
created one Junk folder under Local Folders and set up each account to move junk
mail to Local Folders/Junk.

Although the mail is marked as junk, it does not get moved.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[John McCann]

Is this incoming junk mail or old junk mail? I believe u have to manual move
junk mail that isn't caught on download.

Comment 2

[Tom Hornyak]

It's new mail. Just now I got the latest messages. 18 were marked as junk, 17
were moved to the Local Folders/Junk, one was left in the Inbox. It's not
consistant, I'm still trying to find a pattern.

Comment 3

[Tom Hornyak]

Another example, I have a message in the Inbox, marked as Junk, the log says the
file was moved to Local Folders/Junk. but it wasn't. The message was not in the
Junk folder, Just the Inbox. I GZIP'd/TAR'd the entire directory, but it is over
5 meg. Anybody interested in the file, I could "split" it into smaller pieces.
There seems to be a 300KB limit on posting attachments.

Comment 4

[Herman Oosthuysen]

Mandrake 8.2, Moz 1.3b.

In desperation, I changed the permissions on all mail files to world:
chmod 777 -R *

Now Moz moves newly identified junk automatically to the junk folder.

It therefore appears to be a file permissions problem, but which files exactly I
cannot tell.

Comment 5

[Herman Oosthuysen]

See 196732

This appears to be a file permissions problem.  If I change the permissions on
all mail files to world, then it works.

Comment 6

[Tom Hornyak]

Without changing permissions, it works sometimes. It's just not consistant.
Prior to changing permissions, did any files get moved to the junk folder?

Comment 7

[Herman Oosthuysen]

Prior to changing permissions, nothing ever moved.  The log file said it did,
but it didn't really.  That lead me to try changing the permissions.

Comment 8

[Tom Hornyak]

I turned off junk mail controls for the one account having the problem, exited
out of Mozilla, came back in, re-enabled junk mail controls, set up to send to
the folder again - and it worked!

I have since upgraded to the 1.3 release - and it is still working!

Comment 9

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

=>WorksForMe, based on reporter's comment 8; but see also bug 196732.