264597 - 'n' command (Go to next unread message) skips folders with missing summary files

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[John David Galt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

If a mail folder's summary (.msf) file is missing, but it contains unread
messages (as shown visually by the fact that the folder name is in boldface but
does not have a number after it in parentheses), typing 'n' (or its mouse
equivalent, the "Next" button) silently skips past that folder without asking.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Create some mail folders under "Local Folders".  In one of them (not the first),
create some new, unread messages.  Then exit T-bird and delete that folder's
.msf file.  Restart T-bird, go to an earlier folder, and type 'n'.
Actual Results:  
The folder with no summary file gets silently skipped, and I get shown an unread
message in a later folder (if there is any such message).

Expected Results:  
It should have selected the folder with no summary file, created that summary
file, and shown me the first unread message in that folder.

Workaround: Manually select the folder which has no summary file.  T-bird will
then create the summary file, making that folder's messages reachable by
navigation commands.

Comment 1

[John David Galt]

This can also happen if a mailbox is in a corrupted state as a result of Windows
crashing while running Thunderbird.

If the corrupted mailbox is "Inbox" a more serious side effect occurs:  T-bird
won't download any mail from the host.  When this happened I had no idea why; no
error message or dialog appeared; but I noticed that on startup, T-bird would no
longer open a phone connection to the host (even though I have "download
messages on startup" on).  Should I spin this off as a separate bug?

Comment 2

[David :Bienvenu]

re downloading new mail not working, can you try today's .8+ build?
http://ftp28f.newaol.com/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/latest-0.9/

thx.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

reporter wrote "it still happens.  But I'm still running TB 1.5.0.2."

John, do you still see this in version 2?  if yes, please reopen the bug.