209364 - deleted mail invisible to IMAP SSL but not WebMail

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 94215

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect)

Description

[Dan Star]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529

I have a www.zipmail.com account.  Zipmail uses CommunigatePro email server.   I
have account settings set to 'move to trash when delete'.  When I delete a
message via IMAP SSL, it moves to trash and is no longer seen in the folder the
message was deleted from.  I then 'Empty Trash' exit Mozilla 1.4 RC1.  Restart
Mozilla and login to Zipmail account via the WebMail interface.  The message is
marked as deleted and still in original folder.  To delete the message a
'Compact Folders' must be executed on the folder that has the message marked as
deleted.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. see details
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Expected Results:  
Not left message marked as deleted in folder.

Comment 1

[Mikael Parknert]

This is the normal behaviour in imap. messages are flagged deleted,
then folders need to be EXPUNGEd. http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc3501.txt

it's the webmail that chooses to show them...

Comment 2

[Dan Star]

The Mozilla 1.1 RC2 online help indicates that the 'Expunge' option should be
used when 'mark it as deleted' option is used as this makes sense, not when I
choose to 'move it to the trash folder' and then empty the trash folder.  Note
that this also happen when deleting messages from the sent folder; I have to
specifically compact the sent folder to get rid of the message so it is not seen
via a WEBMail interface.  Very unintuitive and non-user-friendly I think.  Or am
I missing something?

Comment 3

[Mikael Parknert]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 94215 ***