288464 - One set of deleted messages keep reappearing in my in box.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Migration, defect)

Description

[Bev Atwood]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

All the messages that were in my in-box on the day that I migrated to Mozilla
from Microsoft Outlook, repeatedly reappear in my in-box, at irregular
intervals.  76 messages suddenly appear as un-read.  I delete them, and delete
them from my trash, but a few days later, there they are again.  My co-worker
has the same problem.  The date of the e-mails is roughly November 22, 2004. 
Its annoying.  I re-installed the latest version of Mozilla hoping that would
correct it, but it didn't.

Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce

Steps to Reproduce:
1. I don't have a clue how or why it happens so can't reproduce it.
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Expected Results:  
Once messages are deleted, I expect them to remain deleted.

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

this is due to an old bug that has since been fixed - when your e-mails were
imported from Outlook, they were imported incorrectly, in that they didn't get
an x-mozilla-status header, which is how we keep track of what messages have
been deleted. The Daylights savings time change invalidated the .msf file, so we
regenerated it from the mailbox, and since the messages in the mailbox didn't
have the x-mozilla-status line, we didn't know they were deleted.

To fix this, delete a message in the mailbox, and then do a context menu
"compact this folder". That will add back the x-mozilla-status headers, as it
compacts, and then if you delete messages, we'll be able to keep track of the
fact that they were deleted.