239076 - Shared accounts in IMAP produce misleading results

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Gavin Hamill]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.2; Linux) (KHTML, like Gecko)
Build Identifier: 

 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Take two seperate Thunderbird instances (on seperate machines, even) which 
I'll called TB1 and TB2. Each has the "When I delete a message: 'Remove it 
immediately'" option set in Tools -> Account Settings -> Server Settings. 
 
2. Open each with the same IMAP folder containing some messages. 
 
3. Delete a message from TB1 (DEL key or 'Delete' button on toolbar). The 
message disappears from view, and the "\Deleted" flag is marked on the IMAP 
server. 
 
4. Note that the message on the server is merely 'marked as deleted' and not 
physically deleted from the server filesystem. 
 
5. Go to look at the 'deleted' mail in TB2. It loads and opens fine, with no 
clue that it's actually 'deleted'. Even pressing 'Get Mail' does not help, nor 
does the time-honoured 'folder refresh' method of looking at a different 
folder, then looking back to the original one. 
 
In fact, the only thing that causes the mail to be removed from TB2's message 
list, is File -> Compact Folders. 
 
Surely there must be a better way than this? 
 
Cheers, 
Gavin. 
 
 
Actual Results:  
Messages not removed from view on other installations. 

Expected Results:  
Removed the messsage from view on the other installation ;)

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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