Closed Bug 299775 Opened 19 years ago Closed 18 years ago

deletion of messages from server is default behaviour

Categories

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
General
Platform:
PowerPC
macOS
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 231541

People

(Reporter: sehrgut, Assigned: mscott)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/412 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/412
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 1.0.2 (20050317)

When downloading messages from a newly-set-up account, deletion of messages from the server is the 
default behaviour. While most of the time this would be fine, some people depend on being able to access 
their messages from several computers and/or a webmail front end (i.e. when travelling). The first time I 
used Thunderbird, I didn't know that this was the default behaviour, and so I irreversibly emptied my POP3 
server of several months' worth of messages.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Thunderbird
2. Set up new POP3 account
3. Download messages

Actual Results:  
All messages were downloaded, and were removed from the server before an option to leave the messages 
on the server was offered.

Expected Results:  
In the account setup, the option to leave messages on the server should have been presented.
See Suite bug 112356 and bug 231541.
I believe this is a duplicate of Bug 231541.

Reporter (sehrgut@grad.com): Please read Bug 231541 and mark this bug as a
duplicate of Bug 231541 if you agree that it's the same.
No reply from reporter -> resolving duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 231541 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 18 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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