30918 - can't move a Imap message to a local folder or vice-versa

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect, P3)

Description

[scottputterman]

If you try to Move an imap message to a local folder, it will copy the message, 
but not remove the message from the ui.  The first time you do this, it will 
actually delete the message which can be seen when the message disappears the 
next time you open the folder.  However, if you ever try to move/copy another 
message after that first message, it won't work at all.

I have a fix for this and just need to get it reviewed.

Comment 1

[scottputterman]

Marking beta1 in case others consider this important.  It has been pointed out 
to me that this isn't too common of an operation so perhaps we should just wait 
until after beta1.

Comment 2

[Phil Peterson]

[PDT+] w/b minus on 3/8

Comment 3

[scottputterman]

You also can't move a local message to an imap folder without problems.  I have
a fix for this as well.

Because a bunch of these operations are messed up, I would like to run with
these changes in my tree for a couple of days rather than check this code in by
tomorrow.  I hope that you'll view that as a reasonable decision and won't take
away the PDT+ tomorrow.

Comment 4

[scottputterman]

updating summary.  I didn't mention this before, but the bug with moving local
to imap is that it actually copies it to the imap folder as well as the local
trash.  And from that point on you can't do any more moves.  Making it not move
it to the trash makes it so that it can continue to do moves.

I've tested all of the combinations of move/copy I could think of
imap-imap (same server)
imap-imap (different server)
imap-local
local-local
local-imap
news-imap
news-local

And they all seem to be working.  Delete seems to be working too. So I'm pretty
sure the fixes are safe.

Comment 5

[scottputterman]

fix checked in.

Comment 6

[laurel]

I'm verifying here the basics of this bug, repeating to move/copy several
individual messages:
IMAP --> local move
IMAP --> local copy
Local --> IMAP move
Local --> IMAP copy

I'm also trying to test around those basic moves, but will log any problems
found as separate issues.

This is OK using:
2000-03-09-13m15 commercial build on linux rh6.0
2000-03-09-10m15 commercial build on mac OS 9.0

I'm having trouble verifying with NT, am seeing some weirdness which I need to
investigate further before calling this verified.

Comment 7

[laurel]

OK using 2000-03-09-14m15 commercial build on NT 4.0.

Comment 8

[Ryan Flint [:rflint] (ping via IRC for reviews)]

*** Bug 309367 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***