267718 - Messages disappearing from inbox folder, but that can be found performing a search

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 267719

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[carlo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: thunderbird version 0.8 (20040913)

NOTE: I am using GLOBAL INBOX

I have noticed in a few occasion that I download mail, I can see the message in
the Inbox window, than the message disappears (of course I did not delete it).
If I remember who the sender was or some words in the message, I perform a
search and  I can see the messages in the search results. If I set the message
as UNREAD, it shows up again in the inbox window, but just if I set the option
View:Unread, otherwise it is still invisible. If i mark the message UNREAD
again, it disappears from inbox window but it can still be found performing a
search.
The message is actually in the inbox file (it can be found opening the file with
a text editor) and I did not notice anything strange in it.

Reproducible: Didn't try
Steps to Reproduce:
well, i cant reproduce it really; it has happened a couple of times (that I
realized). Hopefully I havent lost many messages I'm not aware of!




I experienced this problem both under windows 2000 and Fedora Core 2. I am using
the default theme.
As far as severity is concerned (see next section), I consider the bug as a
potential data loss problem, since you may not notice you received that message,
so you dont realize it has disappeared. Sometimes you receive dozens messages,
you   dont read them immediatly, so if one or two disappear you may not notice
it later. Of course you might not know any keyword to perform a search, so your
message is virtually lost.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 267719 ***