274800 - saving to imap stored drafts folder while offline does not work

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Josh Plautz]

Version: Thunderbird 1.0 (20041206)
Reproduceability: Always

If you save a message to a drafts folder stored on IMAP while in offline mode,
your message becomes "stuck in limbo" and cannot be accessed.  Attempts to
access the message after going online results in an error dialogue:

"The current command did not succeed.  The mail server responded: Error in IMAP
command received by server.."

Steps to reproduce:

1) Make sure that your drafts folder is set to an IMAP location (the default).  
2) Take Thunderbird offline (I used the lightbulb icon in the lower left if it
makes a difference).
3) Compose a new message.
4) Click the "save" button (defaults to saving to the drafts folder)
5) Click on the message in the drafts folder (you should get a message saying
something about the body not being available because it wasn't downloaded for
offline use).
6) Go online.
7) Re-click on the message, the error shown above occurs.

The message never becomes available, and you are unable to delete, move, view,
or otherwise manipulate the message.

Changing the drafts folder to be in "Local Folders/Drafts" works around the
problem and all mail is accessable as expected so I don't think this is just a
save to drafts problem.

Feel free to contact me if you need more information/tests/screenshots.

Comment 1

[Marco Brandizi]

GRRRRR!!!!! I experience even worse behaviour: Mozilla crashes if I have offline
saved messages in draft folder and I later go online! 

I've used Messenger for years and offline NEVER worked decently. Yeah, I know
I'll make someone angry with this message but I've just lost a VERY important
message I employed DAYS to write. Yeah, I know it's free (either like beer and
like freedom) software and you all are the armade of heros making the world
better with free software religion. But there are things in Mozilla that are
really bad and should absolutely be fixed or removed from stable releases.

A frustrated, yet free SW supporter, user.

Comment 2

[David :Bienvenu]

Marco, you can probably find your message in the offline store for your imap
drafts folder, in the imapmail/<server> subdirectory of your user profile
directory, in a file called Drafts.

Comment 3

[Mike Shaver (:shaver emeritus)]

Confirming, nominating for 1.1.  I'll try to analyze this a bit on the train today.

Comment 4

[David :Bienvenu]

Attachment: proposed fix

The problem that I was able to reproduce was that clicking on the newly saved
offline draft did some weird things like creating ghost headers, etc.  The
immediate cause of that was some code I put in to make sure offline stores
weren't corrupted, i.e., that an offline msg started with "From ". But, offline
drafts start with "FCC ". So I had to extend that check to allow for the
offlien draft case. I explored making offline drafts start with "From " as
well, but that's a much bigger change.

Comment 5

[David :Bienvenu]

fix checked in - please let me know if this fixes it for you.  I'm not sure if
that's what you were seeing or not...