239696 - Can't cancel out of "Bogus sequence in UID fetch" error

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Peter]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

Currently my header list references a message which no longer exists on the
server generating a "Bogus sequence in UID fetch" error.  The pop-up message box
displays an OK button, but pressing that simply regenerates the error.  It is
thus not possible to fix the error without closing TBird since I can't get past
the pop-up box to remove the bad header from my message list.

There needs to be a way to cancel out of the error and return to the message
list window so the bad item can be deleted.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on an item in the message list without a corresponding igem on the IMAP
server.
2.  Get the "bogus UID' error.
3.  Rinse and repeat.

Actual Results:  
See details above.

Expected Results:  
Permitted me to cancel out of the dialog box and delete the offending message
header from the list.

UW IMAP

Comment 1

[Jason Haar]

I can attest to this bug. With Thunderbird-1.0.2 I just moved a very large IMAP
folder from "Mail_Spam" to "Mail/Spam" (i.e I renamed it [within Thunderbird]
from a top-level folder to a subfolder of "Mail") and immediately Thunderbird
started complaining that none of the UIDs within Mail_Spam existed anymore. Well
- duh ;-)

This happens with Courier-IMAP and bincimapd BTW. It seems a bit hit-n-miss. I
was renaming a bunch of small "Mail_*" folders into the "Mail/" folder
structure, and the Mail_Spam one was the only one affected. The rest only had
10-100 msgs each - whereas my Mail_Spam would have had 5-10K - so it may be that
there's a timing issue that triggers this.

As with the original poster of this bug report, I now have to CRASH thunderbird
to get out of the loop.

The two popups I get are:

SELECT failed: No such mailbox "INBOX/Mail/Mail_Spam"
The command "UID FETCH" is unsupported in this state

(i.e. this was from me renaming INBOX/Mail/Mail_Spam to INBOX/Mail/Spam)

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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