288631 - Imap cached folders content disappear

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[jean-christophe.pazzaglia]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; fr-FR; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.0

Hi,

I do have a really annoying issue, my situation is as follow
2 mail accounts on 2 different servers, 
1 imap => work
1 pop => personal

while at home, I cannot reach my IMAP server (firewalled and no VPN up),
if the mailer is 'online' (which is true and may be convenient to use my
personal account ) it  does believe that he can retrieve mail and 
mess around all the 'cached'imap folders 
(ie they simply disappear and I have to resync ..)

I strongly suspect that somewhere in the source you are
not making the right test (something like isOnline() instead
of isOnline() && isAccessible() or a timeOut badly interpreted)

THIS IS REALLY REALLY ANNOYING especially since
I have to recheck all boxes to resync everything
(BTW Is it possible to have a mark all for download box in
the items for offline use)

IT IS DEFINITIVELY A PITY SINCE THUNDERBIRD IS FINALLY
BETTER THAN Netscape 4.7 ;)

jc

It maybe related to bug 191990  and 272995 and 233816 which are all unconfirmed !!!!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. setup an imap account
2. mark some folders as cached
3. sync
4. go offline
5. disable the access (with a personal FW for example)
6. go online
7. fecth mail and/or sync



Expected Results:  
Nothing, or in general warn before deleting Mb's of data

Comment 1

[Ray Booysen]

Reporter, can you please try a newer build than the one you are using. I had
similiar problem but it seems to be sorted.

Comment 2

[jean-christophe.pazzaglia]

Tried with version 1.0.2 (20050317) 2 minutes ago ...

Still the same symptom

however I made a mistake at step 6 (or maybe thi was solved)

6. read a mail on a folder 

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

I think the reporter was suggesting running a trunk build, not 1.02, which is
basically just a security release, with a couple other fixes in it.

Comment 4

[jean-christophe.pazzaglia]

You're right the yesterday build seems to work correctly :)  
Well, I am not sure that my sysadm will be very happy to know that I am running
a nihgtbuild version for reading my email !

jc

Comment 5

[David :Bienvenu]

great, marking wfm.

I use a nightly build 99% of the time, although your mileage may vary :-)