Closed Bug 297939 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

deleting a message does not delete it from the mail files

Categories

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

x86
Windows XP
enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 207736

People

(Reporter: Kaisert06, Assigned: mscott)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050317 Thunderbird/1.0.2

When I delete a file from, say, the inbox, the message is not deleted from the
inbox file in the "Mail" folder of Thunderbird, not even after the Trash is
emptied and Thunderbird is closed. This goes for all message folders, including
subfolders. 
I checked this by opening the respective files in a text editor and finding
messaged I deleted there, even though they no longer appeared in the messages
window. Deleting and automatically recreating the msf files did not show these
"deleted" messages. 
On that note, teh same applies when moving messages from one folder to another.
They are never deleted from the folder the are moved from.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Receive a message (say, a single message in the "Junk" message folder
2. Delete the message, or move it to another folder (both have the same effect
of removing the message from that specific folder)
3. Empty the trash
4. Quit Thunderbird
5. Manually open /Local Folders/Mail/Junk
Actual Results:  
The message (header and body) that was downloaded appears in the "Junk" file.

Expected Results:  
The Junk mail file should not contain that file (in the example above, it should
be empty)

A similar bug was repoted earlier, but was reported to be fixed. I just
downloaded the newet version of Thunderbird, and the error still occurs.
As it turns ou, deleted messages are marked in their respective files with 
"X-Mozilla Status=XXX9". Compacting a folder will get rid of those. However, an 
option like "compact forlders on exit" or "compact folders if file sizes 
increase beyond XMB" would be nice.
Severity: major → enhancement
and there is a bug on that.
Whiteboard: DUPEME
(In reply to comment #1)
> However, an 
> option like "compact forlders on exit" or "compact folders if file sizes 
> increase beyond XMB" would be nice.

See bugs like Core bug 166943, bug 260252, Core bug 207736 and bug 286888.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 207736 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Whiteboard: DUPEME
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