291939 - Moving mail From POP to IMAP Folders. Can't see mail that was coppied.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Peter]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 1.0.2 (20050317)

This is very strange.  I tried this in verion 1.0 and version 1.0.2 (20050317).
 I  found out you can not just move folders from your pop account (within
thunderbird) to your imap account (also within thunderbird), so I created all
folders by hand. 20 minutes latter, I coppied all my mail up to the imap server.
 All mail went seuccessfully (as I can see the number of messages in each folder
by looking in the status bar at the bottom of thunderbird), however, I can not
see the mail in most folders ... it is like there is nothing there.

If I open my imap mail in another program ... (like the dreaded outlook), I can
see all the mail .. so I know it is there.  What is more strange ... If I close
Thunderbird, then reoopen it.  I can select maybe 5 folders that were previously
"empty" and the mail will be there (and never leave untill I delte it or
whatever).  Hoever, there will still be some folders I can't see mail in (that I
never could).  If I then close out again, and then re-open the program, I can
select more folders that I have never seen mail in and boom, there it is. ...
but again, I can only do this to about 5 "new" folders at a time.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Copy mail from pop folders to imap folders.  I coppied from appx 40 folders
2. Check all folders for mail.  Note, will only see the actual messages in
approx 5 folders.  The rest will show number of messages in the status bar,
however, will not be visible
3. Close thunderbird.  Re-open.  Select folders where mail could not be seen. 
This mail will now be visible.  You can only select 4-5 folders, before you have
to re-close thunderird to view more.

Actual Results:  
Folders with no mail being shown, now show mail.  This continues untill all
folders have mail that can be seen.

Expected Results:  
all mail should be in all folders once it is coppied from the pop folders to the
imap folders.

This is anoying enough, that I will not be able to roll thunderbird out as the
"company standared" email client.  When it is fixed, I will ...

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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