289718 - IMAP "Sent" folder not synchronized if current folder while composing

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Erik Luijten]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050317)

I have configured Thunderbird such that it automatically saves any outgoing
e-mail in the "Sent" subfolder on my IMAP server.
Now, if this "Sent" subfolder is the current folder while composing mail and I
send the message, it does NOT immediately show up in the "Sent" folder. Only if
I go to another IMAP folder and then back to the "Sent" folder, the message
becomes visible. This is *not* related to the synchronization interval with the
IMAP server, since the Windows version does not have this problem: there any
sent mail immediately shows up, even if the "Sent" folder is the current folder
while composing and sending a message.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to IMAP inbox and select "Sent" subfolder
2. Compose e-mail and send it.
3. E-mail will not show up in "Sent" folder.
4. Select other IMAP directory and then select "Sent" folder again.
5. E-mail now appears in "Sent" folder.



Expected Results:  
ON Windows versions of Mozilla and Thunderbird, step 4 is not required and sent
mail appears immediately in "Sent" folder after step 2.

Comment 1

[Flavio Stanchina]

Did you select "Check this folder for new messages" in the Sent folder's properties?

Comment 2

[Rolf Leggewie]

no reply from the report for almost a year, somebody please close this bug

Comment 3

[Willie]

It's been longer than that now.  I have yet to see this bugzilla accomplish anything based on any of the issues I've been watching.

The Sent items issue is a little broader than this.  Even if you compose your message while in a different folder, the headers may show up in the Sent folder, but the message itself is not downloaded/synchronized until you go and click on it, even if all the proper Offline options are selected to have it download.  This makes it really quite slow if you've composed a bunch of messages (with attachments) and then want to go and look at the ones that you've sent -- you have to wait for each one to download before looking at it.

Why not just cache it locally while copying it to the IMAP server?

Comment 4

[Rolf Leggewie]

closing as WFM.  Feel free to reopen if you still experience this issue with a recent build.