295473 - Thunderbird makes messages available for offline use (means downloads them) automatically (even when i dont't want this!)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[mey.wer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041122 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.0.2-1i586.rpm on SuSE linux 9.0

I installed Thunderbird. The Offline preference settings were

- "Make the messages in my Inbox available..." checkbox checked
- "When I create new folders, select them for offline use."  checkbox checked

so I unchecked both. (on an IMAP account)
I left TB and started it again.
The checkboxes were still/again enabled.
TB downloads every message (including attachements) from the Inbox automatically
to make it available for offline use.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Install Thunderbird.
(2.  Launch Tbird, and create an IMAP account.)
3. In Account Settings, select "Offline & Disk Space"
4. uncheck the checkboxes
5. leave TB
6. start TB again
Actual Results:  
The checkboxes are still/again enabled.
TB loads down every message (including attachements) from the Inbox
automatically to make it available for offline use.

Expected Results:  
The checkboxes shoulb remain unchecked.
Thunderbird should not download any message as long as I dont force TB to do so
(either by left-klicking the message to be shown or by right-klicking and copy
or move it to a local folder).



[see also bug 256955]

Comment 1

[mey.wer]

sorry: it was still Thunderbird 1.0-2i586.rpm on SuSE linux 9.0, installed ("rpm
-Uvh ...") after the older TB 0.8 version. In the 0.8 version the same problem
existed too. 
(Only I'm not sure, if the Offline preference settings were
- "Make the messages in my Inbox available..." checkbox checked
- "When I create new folders, select them for offline use."  checkbox checked
already after installation or if I checked them in the beginning.
But I'm sure that I was not able to really uncheck them, because after every new
start of TB they where checked again automatically and TB again downloaded every
message austomatically...
[I don't know for the new version 1.0.2-1.]

Comment 2

[mey.wer]

I checked now for the new version 1.0.2-1.
After really new installation it's ok.
But using the old .thunderbird folder again it's impossible to change the
"make-available-for-offline-use-behavior", unchecking the checkboxes doesn't
work still.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

=> WFM - I've not seen this, after using offline + trunk for a few weeks.

Please comment if you still see the problem