291984 - mail lost if I delete a folder which was associated with a message filter

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Markus]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

I had a message filter which was associated with a folder. I deleted the folder
and Thunderbird gave me a warning, that the associated message filter will be
disabled. I sayed ok, but the filter was not disabled and after I downloaded a
message for the deleted folder, thunderbird told me, that the folder does not
exist. Up to this time, the message filter was disabeld but I did not found my
message - it was lost.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.create a folder "test"
2.create a message filter which is associated with the folder test
3.write an email and look if the message is put to the folder "test"
4.delete the folder "test" and delete it from the trash too
5.Accept the warning, that the message filter to this folder will be disabled.
6.Look that the message filter is disabled - but it is not disabled
7.send an email again 
8.Thunderbird give a warning that the folder does not exist an disable the
message filter but the mail ist not in the inbox

Actual Results:  
The mail was lost

Expected Results:  
The mail should be moved to the inbox folder

Comment 1

[chuck]

I also exprienced this bug.  The message that matched a filter assigned to a
non-existent folder was deleted when the folder was not found.  It's like
Thunderbird downloaded it, but didn't know where to put it, so it is lost on my
harddrive somewhere.   no big deal, it was a SimTropolis forum autoresponse.

chuck

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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