212108 - moving messages from Inbox to trash using filters causes messages not getting deleted on POP server

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 89034

(MailNews Core :: Networking: POP, defect)

Description

[Mohit Aron]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312


Hello,

I have a Yahoo email account whose email I read by using Mozilla as a POP client.
I configure Mozilla to leave all email messages on the server and only delete
them on the server if I delete the message in Mozilla.

Usually, the above works for explicit emails that I delete using Mozilla.That
is, if I delete a particular email from Mozilla's Inbox, it is put in the 
Trash folder and when I empty out the trash folder and click on "Get Msgs" again
, the deleted message is also cleared off from the server. This is as expected.

The problem happens when I use message filters to delete some of the incoming
mail automatically. I have a filter in Mozilla setup such that any email whose
subject line contains SPAM is moved automatically from the Inbox folder to the
Trash folder. This much works. However, now if I empty out the Trash folder
and then press "Get Msgs", this does not result in the corresponding email
messages getting deleted on the POP server.This is the bug.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Use Mozilla as a POP email client for a server like Yahoo
2.Setup a filter in Mozilla to move some of the emails received automatically to
  the Trash folder
3. When you receive some emails that are moved into Trash by the message filter, 
   try emptying out Trash and clicking on "Get Msgs" again.
4. Login to the POP server explicitly and check the mail there - you'll find 
   that the email message has not been deleted.


Actual Results:  

The email that was deleted in Mozilla was not deleted on the POP server.


Expected Results:  

It should have sync'd with the POP server so as to correctly delete the mail.

Comment 1

[james davis]

Changing to ALL as I'm seeing this on Win2k while talking to a GroupWise server.
I have a filter to delete emails that really don't get deleted on the pop server.
I'm still trying to trace the network traffic to see what is really going back
to the server. (PS - The "delete messages on server when moved from Inbox" is set).

w/Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/2003082804

Comment 2

[james davis]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 89034 ***