241883 - Running imap, if I delete messages with anearly date while offline, when I reconnect all of the deletes go away and nothing gets replayed on my server

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 228237

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect)

Description

[razl2]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

I'm running mail using imap.  My INBOX is extremely large 4500 messages.  If I
have my Inbox cached when I go offline, then I try to delete messages starting
with the eldest, when I reconnect, mozilla seems to get confused and all of the
emails that were marked for deletion change back to being marked as read and
nothing gets updated on the imap server.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. go offline and sync inbox into local cache
2. delete messages beggining with eldest
3. reconnect to server

Actual Results:  
All messages marked for deletion changed back to the "read" state.

Expected Results:  
The emails marked for deletion should have been removed from the server and from
my local cache.

Comment 1

[Ian Young]

I believe this has just happened to me in Thunderbird 0.8 under Windows 2000. 
In my case, it was a separate folder rather than the Inbox.  I synchronised and
disconnected, deleted about 3/4 of the mail from the folder, and reconnected and
resynchronised: it all came back.

Comment 2

[razl2]

Check out bug 228237.  This is the same bug and yes this bug is exhibited on
Tbird too.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[David :Bienvenu]

marking dup - I think there's actually a more recent trunk fix for some related
issues.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 228237 ***