296154 - messages in imap inbox are not sync'ed to the local cache even when specified in the sync dialogue box

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[razl2]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Fedora/1.0.4-1.3.1 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: mozilla thunderbird 1.0+ (20050531)

I select my inbox as one of several folders to sync when I go offline.  When I
do go offline, there are some message bodies that have not been pulled down to
the local cache.  When I explicitly sync my folders while I'm online, and then
go offline, message bodies still don't appear in my local cache.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
One way
1. select offline use
2.download all message bodies
3.Not all messages are pulled down.

second way
1. Select the offline->download/sync now menu option
2. click the sync button
3. go offline
4. Again, not all messages in the folder get cached

Actual Results:  
Message bodies did not appear in the offline cache as they should have

Expected Results:  
All of the messages in the folders marked for syncing should have their message
bodies in the local cache.

Comment 1

[Andrew Beckett]

I can confirm this bug - it happens all the time and is very irritating!

It makes using Thunderbird offline almost impossible.

Andrew.

Comment 2

[Mark Histed]

I also see this bug, with a Courier server
[CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA IDLE ACL ACL2=UNION STARTTLS] Courier-IMAP ready. Copyright 1998-2004 Double Precision, Inc.  See COPYING for distribution information.]

and more sporadically with a dovecot server (shipped with Ubuntu breezy).

Comment 3

[Nikolay Shopik]

still see problem with latest TB?

Comment 4

[Andrew Beckett]

The problem certainly still occurs in 2.0.0.14

I find if I've done a recent empty trash and compact folders, I often have to rebuild index before I download offline messages to stand any chance of getting them all.

Andrew.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Mark,raz,Andrew,
please attach an imap protocol log as a file, to the bug
https://wiki.mozilla.org/MailNews:Logging

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

how is this different from bug 296769?

Comment 7

[Nikolay Shopik]

Closing Incomplete for lack of answers.

Feel free to reopen if you can provide more information.