279440 - IMAP: Changing folders before op completes leaves Tb waiting forever

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[blujay]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041103 Firefox/1.0RC2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041103 Firefox/1.0RC2

Tb seems to hang sometimes waiting on an IMAP operation to complete before doing
another local action.

In this case, I was moving a bunch of messages from one IMAP folder to another
(clicked Delete, and prefs are set to move deleted messages to INBOX.Trash). 
Before the delete operation finished, I clicked on another folder to read
messages in that folder.  Tb switched to that folder, but didn't display any of
the messages in it, and the cursor stuck on the hourglass.  Even after the
delete operation finished, it stayed that way.  Only after I clicked on another
folder and then back on the folder I wanted to look at did it show the messages
and change back to the arrow cursor.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Delete/move a bunch of messages in an IMAP folder (150-200 in this case).
2.  Click on a different IMAP folder before the delete/move operation has completed.
3.  After messages have been deleted/moved (moved to IMAP Trash folder in this
case), messages in second folder are never displayed and cursor remains on
hourglass (until you click on another folder).

Comment 1

[blujay]

I should add that the messages in the second folder were already on my local
mail store, so Tb could have displayed them without waiting for the IMAP
operation to finish.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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