210067 - "Remove it immediately" does NOT delete from IMAP server

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 83816

(MailNews Core :: Networking: IMAP, defect)

Description

[Anthony Howe]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: 2003061008

I get copies of my email sent to my cell phone. And I occassionally delete
messages from the mail box to liberate space from my PC.  Today I actually
connected to the mail box via GPRS/WAP interface and found that all the messages
I  though had been deleted, had not been. 

Mozilla is set to access the account via IMAP and to "Remove it immediately"
when I delete messages. Mozilla happily deletes it from the message list but
fails to remove it from the IMAP server. I have to explicitly do a "Compact
folder" action, which I never had to do before with the old Netscape 4.79, when
using "Remove it immediately" option.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create IMAP account, specify for "When I delete messages" option "Remove it
immediately".
2. Get email.
3. Delete email.
4. telnet imap.server.tld 143

1 login username password
2 select INBOX
3 logout

When you perform the IMAP SELECT command, it should report the number of
messages in the box.  Alternatively jump on the server and look at the mailbox
files.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Does it remove the messages if you close Mozilla ?
(The reason is AFAIk Undo )

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

You can find everything in bugzilla if you search...


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 83816 ***