227201 - Adding a profile that was previously removed will trash old mail

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[David Jobet]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.1; Linux)
Build Identifier: 

Say we have a mail account named Free. 
Remove that account. 
Add it again (with same name). 
Old mail have now disapear because it seems Thunderbird will create a new 
profile, overwriting the old one without asking before if old found mail 
should be trashed or kept. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Remove account "Free" 
2.Add account "Free" 
 
Actual Results:  
Old mail from "Free" have disapeared 

Expected Results:  
Asked a directory named "Free" already exist. Checked it look like a 
Thunderbird directory. Look for existent mails. Ask if old mail should be 
trashed or kept.

Comment 1

[Daniel Podgurski]

(In reply to comment #0)

The problem with this is that it's probably in the basic folder creation
routines, as this happens with not just accounts creation/deletion/renaming, it
happens with folders in general.


Z wrote:

> This bug is not MIME-related.
>
> Try this:
>
> Right click on Inbox
> New Folder...
> Dummy > Ok
> Put 1 mail msg in it    (a mail msg you can afford to lose forever)
> Rename Dummy to New Dummy > Ok
> Rename New Dummy to Dummy > Ok
> Open Dummy ... Ok, where's the mail message?


Wow!  Magic!

I didn't know this bug existed.

Not only that, try this:

Make folder foo
Rename to foobar
Rename to foo (messages vanish)
Rename to foobar

*choke*

"the folder could not be renamed.  Perhaps the folder is being reparsed, or the
new name is not a valid folder name."

-- 
BMO 

Comment 2

[Thomas Bertels]

I cannot reproduce this with Thunderbird 2 beta 2.
Can you ?

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

no response, so closing WFM based on comment 2.