221554 - Moved mails are not really moved but copied. In mail folders they seemed to be moved but in the files they are only copied.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 183837

(MailNews Core :: Database, defect)

Description

[Barbara Schmitz]

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

If moving a mail from one folder to another, it seems that it all works
correctly. But if I looked into the files, the mail was still in the file, from
which it should have been moved. Because of this duplication of mails the files
grow up and uses memory capacity. In our office most people uses mozilla as mail
client, but we have to change, if this problem isn't be solved in a short time,
because our server crashed because of less memory capacity.
The problem occures on windows 2000 and nt by using mozilla 1.4.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. moving mails from one folder to another
2. 
3. 
Actual Results:  
Visible on mozilla mail frontend it works, mail has moved, but if looking into
the files using a text editor the mails are still there. So a file can use much
memory capacity although there is no mail in the mail folder it belongs to.

Expected Results:  
Also moving the mail from one file to the other and not only copying it.

There is a similar problem when printing a page from the web uising mozilla. An
entry is made in the cache, but if deleting the cache such entries are not
deleted maybe becuase there is no pointer to such entries.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Use "compact folders". This will delete the moved and deleted files in the files

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 183837 ***

Comment 2

[Henrik Gemal]

v dupe