227308 - RFE: Junk filter doesn't expunge messages from IMAP Inbox

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Filters, enhancement)

Description

[Ray Trent]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031002 Firebird/0.7+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031002 Firebird/0.7+

There are other bugs that talk about problems with filters moving messages
leaving deleted messages behind, but I'm not really seeing that (and even if I
were, it's especially egregious WRT spam). I'm seeing the messages being left on
the IMAP server intact, and just removed from the local Inbox index (it seems). 

I read my work mail from home using a webmail interface. I would have thought
that Mozilla/Thunderbird (which I leave running on my machine at work) would
have moved the messages out of my Inbox, leaving it uncluttered. But it doesn't
seem to work that way. That makes it almost impossible to use my webmail
interface because of the giant piles of spam in my Inbox.

The messages don't go away until I empty my trash.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Bring up both Outlook and Thunderbird/Mozilla.
2. Allow spam to arrive and be moved to the junk folder by Mozilla.

Actual Results:  
Messages still appear in Outlook, or in a webmail interface (even after
refreshing). They don't look marked deleted in Outlook/webmail... they just look
normal.


Expected Results:  
Messages should have been moved immediately from the server.

I'm using "move to trash" as my delete method (as opposed to "mark as deleted").

Also, it doesn't seem to matter whether the destination spam folder is local or
on the IMAP server.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Ray Trent]

Well, I'm changing this from a bug report to an RFE. I still think it's a very
important feature to have for people that read mail primarily using Thunderbird
but secondarily other interfaces such as web-based mail, because it severely
limits the usefulness of Thunderbird's filtering system.

Without this, I'm seriously considering turning off my Thunderbird filtering and
switching over to having Outlook do my filtering, because it will properly
expunge my inbox. That would be sad.

Comment 3

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

Comment 4

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter on "Nobody_NScomTLD_20080620"

Comment 5

[Ray Trent]

Haven't seen this on recent builds.