279986 - empty messages in Junk folder after deleting all messages in junk and changing to another folder

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[d courtnier]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

if i check for new mail, i always have several new messages in my junk folder,
even if my mail server doesn't appear to have sent mail.
the sender and subject are always empty and the date is always 31/12/1969 4:00pm
if i delete them by clicking on the junk button they disappear and go to the
deleted folder but the junk headinfg on the left shows 1 unread message and is bold.
if i select the first one and hold the shift key then click the junk button they
disappear and the junk heading on the left isshows no new messages.
i can change t to any folder and back to junk and there are then several
unopened messages inwith no subjects or senders, dated in 1969....
i can attach the .eml file if you like?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.click on junk selection on left column ( delete any messages in folder)
2.click on inbox or any other folder 
3.click in junk folder 

Actual Results:  
several new messages without collecting mail with no subject or sender dated 1996

Expected Results:  
not had any new mail in junk folder mail

Comment 1

[d courtnier]

version 0.6+ (20050125)

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[d courtnier]

updated to version 1.5 Beta 1 (20050908) still getting empty messages in junk 
folder all dated 31/12/1969 4:00 PM junk folder shows new messages (bold with 
new message number in parenthases) even though there are no new messages oreven 
any messages in the folder. fix i have been diong is to delete the empty 
messages and right click on the junk folder and "mark as read"

Comment 4

[Stefan Geisseler]

Attachment: illustration of empty messages

Same here...
I have deleted all junk mails and compacted the junk folder yesterday, so this
can't be a data structure error produced by older versions of thunderbird
(using 1.5 beta 2 now)

Comment 5

[Stefan Geisseler]

Attachment: mail counts also fail...

Well, the picture says more than my words...
You really should work on those bugs first, before put more and more features
into Thunderbird... Well, the junk-mails I get could be in a very rough and
manipulated format, because my own mailserver doesn't change/delete any of
them. Maybe most of the users don't get such mails and therefore also no bugs.
But isn't it the goal of a client to stay consistent and work properly / show
all messages even a bad junk sender sends mail data that can mess up your
inbox?

Comment 6

[Stefan Geisseler]

Attachment: with a filter some messages appear

Comment 7

[zug_treno]

Related to Core bug 209501 and/or bug 325001?

Comment 8

[Jerry]

I have experienced exactly the same thing.  If you delete the "ghost" message enough times, it shows up as a real message that you can permanently delete.  When it shows up in my junk folder, it shows 12/31/1969 5:00 PM.  When you delete the message, it reappears as soon as you go back to the junk folder. 

Comment 9

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

courtnier, Jerry, do you still see the propblem?  dupe to bug 209501 ?

Stefan is no longer in a position to test this issue.

Comment 10

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

Resolving closeme bugs that did not have any useful information provided since the last comment. -> incomplete.

Please feel free to comment if the issue still occurs in the latest supported version 2.0.0.12 or trunk nightlies.

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