280774 - Moving a message between folders in imap-protocol causes the message to vanish

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Heikki Hämäläinen]

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

Moving messages betweeen folders in imap-protocol fails to compact folders,
which causes a message to "vanish" when moving the mail back to the original folder.

This can be seen clearly when imap-server option "when i delete message" is set
to   "mark it as deleted". The moved message is marked deleted in the folder.
But when one moves the message from the other folder back to the original, the
delete flag is not unset and the message is set to deleted in both folders

If i use the compact folder action to the folders before moving the message
back, the moving works as it should be.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. move mail from folder a to folder b
2. move mail from folder b to folder a without using compact folders option
3. message vanishes

Actual Results:  
Message vanish

Expected Results:  
Message moves normally

Bug has been present in every version of Thunderbird and Mozilla mail which i
have used in Windows and Linux. I have tried to make a log as adviced in
http://www.mozilla.org/quality/mailnews/mail-troubleshoot.html#imap
but the logfile is empty. I will try to make a log in my home-pc which is
running linux and if it works, i will attach it to this bugreport.

My ISP:s mailserver is running as far as i know Postfix. Server is mail.kolumbus.fi

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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