283157 - mails cloned (at least in junkfolder) mails cant be downloaded (another reported bug)

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[bugzilla]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)
Build Identifier: Version 1.0 (20041206)

there is a nasty bug with thunderbird when fetching only headers. as described 
in #261668 the headerfiles get deleted when clicking the link to download the 
respective mail. even worse (not reported in the mentioned bug) everytime i 
click that link, one more header gets deleted (the number of of mails is 
counting down, i dunno wich ones getting killed). on top of that: everytime 
thunderbird checks for new mail it seems to add junkmails in the box over and 
over again. e.g i have 1 junk mail in my mbox on the server. everytime 
thunderbird checks, it adds this mail (only the header) to the junkfolder. 
leaving me with hundreds of cloned mailheaders with dead links.

my suggestion: when the user clicks to get the desired mail from the server, 
dont delete the headerfile until the full mail is there. append a (header only) 
to the subject or anything)

one more thing ive noticed. deleting the junkfolder and all its files and 
creating a new empty Junk plus deleting the mbox on the mail server helps for 
the next message update. those messages can be retrieved. the check after that 
seems to mess the account or rather the junk folder up again...

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
This seems to be a problem only with one of my 2 virtual accounts. both are 
using the same mail server
1.set tb to fetch only headers from server but dont leave them there
2.set tb to automatically fetch your mails
3.watch the junk folder. every auto-fetch the spam is cloned
4.click one spammer u assume not too risky too 8one whithout attachment i would 
say)
5.click to get new mail. the current mail should disappear from the 
junkfolderview (where the mails are listed)
6.repeat step 5 and watch the countdown

Actual Results:  
mails, of wich i only retrieved the headers cloned
everytime i click one header gets lost without a chance to recover thru the box 
files, the search function, the folder compact whatever - those are lost
when deleting the junkfolder thru explorer (+.sbd +.msf) the account seems to 
behave corectly for the next fetch to break again after the following fetch
(by fetch i mean the general account mail fetch,  not the retrieve single 
message by clicking on its link)

Expected Results:  
mails downloaded. mailheaders only fetched once.

Comment 1

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