230461 - unwanted folders (Sent, Templates, Drafts) should not be created again

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 197228

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[André Langhorst]

(actually this is Mail Window Back End but its not selectable)

see bug 35310 "Unwanted folders should not be created again."

1) you have got a few accounts (eg.5) each with Sent,Templates, Drafts. if you
want to use the local account for that it could save you accounts# x 3 entries
there (eg. 15)
2) this is a workaround to be able to delete folders:
if you go to the prefs and change for all accounts a) all (in "copies&folders")
these 3 for all accounts to OTHER (accept the default setting here) b) confirm
with OK button c) go back to the prefs and change them all to "X folder on:
Local Folders" d) confirm with OK e) for all folders in [Edit] -> [Delete
Folder] should be available
3) delete them all
4) close TB
5) start TB
6) They're all back, sigh

this really is embarassing, I got only 6 accounts and already waste 18 entries

Comment 1

[André Langhorst]

adding keyword mail3, proposing for tb 0.6

Comment 2

[André Langhorst]

interstingly this only happens for imported (by copying) account, not for newly
created ones as far as I can see for now...

Comment 3

[Scott MacGregor]

only developers can target milestone fixes for bugs.

This is a huge feature that will take a lot of time. Won't happen till after 1.0

Comment 4

[Troy Miller]

(In reply to comment #3)
> This is a huge feature that will take a lot of time. Won't happen till after 1.0

Isn't this also pretty much a dup of 197228? That one explains things really
well, I think.

And I'd really kind of hate to put this off until 1.0 - it's really a
common-sense thing to a lot of people, and having a lot of extra folders that
aren't necessary, often requiring excessive scrolling, can get annoying really fast.

Comment 5

[lohphat]

I'm getting thin on Moz 1.8 as well.  When the Mail GUI starts for the first
time after moz is started, a Templates folder is created in the account section
of my IMAP account.  When the mail server is contacted, the folder disappears
because it doesn't exist on the server.  In addtion, I cannot delete the Drafts
or Templates folders of the POP account either.

Comment 6

[Patrick]

(In reply to comment #5)
> In addtion, I cannot delete the Drafts
> or Templates folders of the POP account either.

I just wanted to save a mail as draft but it didn't go to the local folders'
drafts folder but to the the pop.account's draft folder associated with the
"personality" ("from:" field) I decided to send it with. This seems only to
happen when I create a mail with a "from:" field associated with the primary
(the first one ever created) mail account.

Should this be a new bug or is it related to this one or ...?

Comment 7

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

Yes, afaiui the "Copies & Folders" prefs on where to save Drafts, Sent et al.
are identity-specific, and the "Copies & Folders" prefs appearing under each
incoming account in Account Settings are those of the default identity related
to that incoming account. See also Account Settings -> [account] -> Manage
Identites... -> [identity] -> Edit...

And no, this bug is not about messages going into unexpected places, but about
folders appearing which no messages would go into anyway.

Comment 8

[Shriramana Sharma]

In reply to comment #3
> This is a huge feature that will take a lot of time.

Huge feature??? There's a *two* line workaround here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197228#c19.

This bug should be a dup of that one, BTW.

Comment 9

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 197228 ***