220917 - Sending Mail can't copy to send folder, crashes and produces empty mail in inbox

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Arne Brüning]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030916
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030916

Sometimes when I send a mail, I get Message that the mail can't be copied to my
sent folder and give me the choice that I can return to editing or cancel.
Don't understand why mail can not be copied, because though I work with an IMAP
server for quota reasons I use a local sent folder.
When I cancel this (because mail already sent), Mozilla crashes.
After restarting there is a new Mail in my inbox which is abolutely empty: no
subject, sender, or text and the date is 01-jan-70 1:00
This happens every time this error occurs (1-2 times a week, I'm a heavy mail user).
These empty mails can not be deleted "The current command did not succeed. The
mail server responded: UID COPY failed: failed to copy (Database Error#-2).."
I guess this is because the empty mails are not on the server, only local in my
Mozilla Mail. When I use an other Mail client, I don't see these empty mails.
As I get one of these at every of these crashes, I have quite a collection of
these empty mails in my inbox. The only way I found to get rid of them is to
delete the mail account and create it anew.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Send mail
2. wait for crash
3. look inbox

Actual Results:  
see above

Expected Results:  
copy sent mail to sent folder and not create empty mail in inbox

will submit next time it crashes

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

unable to reproduce with Mozilla 1.7 beta.