273334 - IMAP status bar incorrect after compact with offline support enabled

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[dorban6]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910
Build Identifier: version 1.0 (20041205)

I am using the Windows .zip builds on W2K SP4 clients. I have seen the behavior
on systems with prior existing profiles, and on systems built from clean images
with no prior Mozilla or Thunderbird installations.

I currently use uw-imap 2002d running on Mandrake 9.2 on the server side.  I
also run a second server with uw-imap running on Redhat.  I have multiple
clients running Windows 2000 SP4. I have always had a problem with Thunderbird
not showing "DONE" or a similar status at the end of compacting folders on any
IMAP accounts. I always knew it was done when the status bar cleared and showed
nothing at all. This was the behavior I saw from the time I started using
Thunderbird many versions ago, through the 110504 nightly.  I had been using the
latest nightly from 110504, and recently started playing with newer nightlys
when I saw information about the IMAP status bug (181627) listed in the nightly
from 112304. I thought this might be the answer to the lack of status
information when compacting is complete. I have tried nightlys from 112304
through 120504. There appears to be a regression in the behavior of the STATUS
reported at the end of compacting IMAP folders. The status bar either shows
"compacting folder..." or "downloading message..." at the end of compacting.
This status remains, even though compacting appears to have completed, until a
new function writes something to 'status" to clear the incorrect status message.

I have tested installations on several clean installations and have discovered
that the problem only occurs when offline support is enabled, and an offline
sync has been completed. On tests I have done where no offline support has been
used, the status bar doesn't show anything. On every test where at least one
offline sync has been done, the status bar shows incorrect information as
indicated above.

I have reproduced the error every time on a Redhat 7.3 server, Mandrake 9.2
server, and Mandrake 10.1 server.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure offline support to a uw-imap server
2. Create and have mail in folders other than INBOX
3. Complete an offline sync, but stay in on-line mode
4. Select the option to COMPACT folders from the FILE menu
5. Status will not clear when compacting is complete

Actual Results:  
Status shows folder names as it compacts, but will not show correct status when
compacting of all folders is complete.  It either shows "compacting folder..."
or "downloading message..." when complete.

Expected Results:  
Clear the status and show nothing as in builds prior to 112304, or show
something like DONE or COMPLETE

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

yes, there is a problem with the offline store part of the compaction status.

Comment 2

[Jerry Baker]

This also happens with POP3. In fact, this ALWAYS happens when compacting
folders under every scenario I have ever tried. Should I file a separate bug, or
modify this one's summary?

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Bug 275199 is about the general problem with this status message in Thunderbird.
If there is actually something special about the IMAP case -- comment 1 implies 
that there is -- then this bug should not be duped, nor that bug duped to this 
one.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

not major.  still see this Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1a2pre) Gecko/2008072800 Shredder/3.0a2pre

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

bienvenu, if you think there is still a problem (your comment 1), please reopen the bug.

using current trunk in offline mode
imap - compact is disabled
pop - status bar shows "Done compacting" for me