216691 - Mailbox does not exist error when syncing mail

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Andy Pastuszak]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

I have Thunderbird 0.1 installed on my laptop and whenever I sync my IMAP mail
for offline use, I end up getting an error stating "Mailbox does not exist."  If
I then click on all the folders on my list, I eventually find the one that does
not exist, only to have it exist about 10 seconds later.  I then end up having
another folder that does not exist completely different from the original one. 
If I quit our of Thunderbird and go back in, all folders exist for a brief time
before the cycle starts all over again.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Gilles Durys]

*** Bug 216692 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Andy Pastuszak]

Here's some more detail for you.  At home I use MacOS X and it uses a folder
called Deleted Messages as the IMAP trash folder.  When I told Thunderbird to
sync all folders except the Deleted Messages folder, all of the sudden, the
error went away.  Go figure.  Hope this helps in some way towards resolving the
issue.

Comment 3

[Ray Booysen]

Reporter, can you please try reproduce this error on a newer build?

Comment 4

[Andy Pastuszak]

I forgot I even had this bug open all this time!  I am running Thunderbird 2.0 now and have not seen this bug in years.

Comment 5

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

"Fixed by who knows what, or when" is "WORKSFORME", but thanks for letting us know it's not a problem any more.