272710 - TB's Labels (ToDo, Important, etc.) don't seem to work across TB instances

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Tim K]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: version 0.9

I use an IMAP server and multiple (3) instances of TB on different computers.

I tried using TB's labels (ToDo, Important, etc.) but they seem to be stored 
locally in each instance rather than on the IMAP server (though people in the 
forums claim otherwise).

I set them from one TB instance and I cannot see them from the other 
instances. Same when I clear them, they are not cleared from the other 
instances.

I am not sure where the bug is ...

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use multiple TB instances (from different computers) to access an IMAP 
server
2. From one computer set some labels on some messages on the IMAP server
3. From a different computer try and see if the labels show up and if they can 
be cleared

Actual Results:  
Cannot see labels from a different TB instance against the same IMAP server

Expected Results:  
Should be able to see the labels from different instances of TB against the 
same IMAP server

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

we store labels on the imap server iff the imap server supports user defined
keywords. Does yours? If you don't know, you can attach an imap protocol log,
and I can tell you...

http://www.mozilla.org/quality/mailnews/mail-troubleshoot.html#imap

Comment 2

[David :Bienvenu]

Verified with a log from Tim that unfortunately his server doesn't support
\$Label1-5 or \*, so this is invalid.