283313 - Sent copy fails due to clearing of form entries in Account Manager --> Copies & Folders

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[Lambert]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225

I also have problems with Sent copies. The cause seems to be
that upon clicking OK in the Account Manager --> Copies & Folders
dialog, the changed settings are not persistent. Revisiting that 
dialog shows empty fields. This holds for all fields and items
in the Copies & Folders.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set Place a copy in Sent folder (Copies&Folders)
2. Compose a new email and send it
3. Go to the Sent folder: nothing is there

Actual Results:  
- no copy of outgoing mail, anywhere !!!!!! Terrible.
- the fields in the Copies & Folders form are blank upon inspection, post hoc
- Manual setting of a Sent copy from the mail composition window DOES work

Expected Results:  
It should not have thrown my valuable typed message with possible
legal, financial or political content&consequences into oblivion.

My setup is different in that an:

- Import of an earlier Mozilla mail tree (huge: > 2600 folders) had failed. 

I have solved that problem by naming this directory such that
Thunderbird recognizes it as a regular account directory.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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