286855 - Any change in Junk Mail Controls will be igrnored / forgotten

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Migration, defect)

Description

[Georg Dembowski]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 1.0 (20041206)

My Junk Mail Controls do not work as supposed; junk is neither recognized nor
moved. Tried to change any settings, clicked OK, but Thunderbird ignores my
changes, so it's forgotten even without a thunderbird restart, tb just don't
care what I did. IMHO serious, as junk-classification is a promotion feature AND
changing of preferences as a must-work.


Some facts
- I migrated from Mozilla 1.7 (junk mail detection worked fine)
- The problem only occours for local folders (the 3 other account settings are
memorized)
- I deleted Junk.msf and Junk and Junk.sbd and recreated the folder, but no effect
- I manually scanned the tb prefs.js but did not find anything helpful (only
spamActionTargetAccount and spamActionTargetFolder are set and
mailnews.ui.junk.firstuse", false)
- The JavaScript Console does not log anything
- I can press OK, so it's different than Bug 223452

As I'm able to code JavaScript and XML, you may simply give some hint where to
look or which setting file to analyse. Thanks for any hints! :)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.start TB
2.In menu, click "Tools", "Junk Mail Controls"
3.do any setting for "Local Folder"
4.click ok
5.redo 2
6.recognize that your changes were ignored and the settings are the same ass
before your changes



Expected Results:  
TB shall memorize my changes

Comment 1

[Georg Dembowski]

I found a solution, IMHO seems to be a bug in the Mozilla 1.7 to Thunderbird 1.0
import wizard. 

One needs to edit prefs.js and search for "spamActionTargetAccount". For the
local folder, the spamActionTargetAccount was filled with one of the POP/IMAPs.
Change the value to "mailbox://nobody@Local%20Folders" and everything works like
desired, as the target account and target folder fit to each other and are
accessible. 

Best regards, Georg (please send me private mail as I'm not that active in bugzilla)

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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