231802 - Junk mail marking lost on upgrade to 1.6 and or rebuild of summary file

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 195737

(MailNews Core :: Database, defect)

Description

[Peter Kirk]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

I just upgraded from 1.5 to 1.6. Following this my summary files were all
rebuilt (see bug 231735). During one of these processes messages previously
marked with the Junk icon, in my Junk folder, lost their Junk icons.

Possibly related to bug 231735 (many messages became marked as unread at the
same time) although these junk messages were not imported from Outlook.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Upgrade from 1.5 to 1.6.
2. Rebuild summary files.

Actual Results:  
Messages previously marked as Junk lost their marking. (Also many messages
previously marked as Read became marked as Unread.)

Expected Results:  
Junk and Read marking should have been preserved.

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

1.5 had a bug where the junk status was not stored in the x-mozilla-status2
line. Outlook import also had a bug where the x-mozilla-status line wasn't added
to imported messages (which is why you lost your read state). Both these bugs
are fixed.

Comment 2

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

David, newer Mozilla will recover from no Junk staus in x-mozilla-status2 or no
x-mozilla-status2 in Junk folder automatically?
Or users have to mark as "Junk" again manually even after fix of bugs?
For no x-mozilla-status2 mails imported from Outlook, Mozilla will add
x-mozilla-status2 line on marking as "Junk" after fix of bugs?

Comment 3

[guanxi]

Also lost on upgrade from Moz 1.6 to 1.7b (on WinXP Pro).


I 'upgraded' by creating a new profile for Moz 1.7b and manually copying over
the mail files.

Comment 4

[:aceman]

I can confirm this. I used 1.5, 1.6, 1.7rc1, 1.7 and I marked some junk messages
every day. Now, the daylight change occured and the junk flags are lost (see bug
136049). So, I had some messages correctly marked under 1.6-1.7 without the bug
mentioned in comment 1. Why are the flags lost? When looking into the mbox file,
I see no difference between a message marked as junk and a non-junk one, judging
from the x-mozilla-status2 line.

Comment 5

[Peter Kirk]

The loss of junk mail status on rebuilding summary files appears to be a
duplicate of bug 195737. Rebuilding of summary files on upgrade may be intended.

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 7

[:aceman]

So isn't this a dupe of bug 195737? The original report mentions an upgrade from
1.5 to 1.6, which caused a rebuild of msf files. But if the flags are stored
correctly in the mbox files, any rebuild shouldn't loose the indications.
Therefore that seems to be the main problem.

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Aceman, thanks.  bug 195737 or related others which are being looked at.