322710 - Mail deleted when downloading the rest of the message in Message Pane with pop setting "Fetch headers only"

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Krzysztof Kobrzak]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

I have a folder called "yahoo" inside my Local Folders and there is another folder inside called "opzz". I use the "Fetch headers only" setting for all the 3 accounts I have. Whenever I open up any of the messages in that folder (either in the Message Pane or in a new window), and the message weights a bit, I can obviously see the info: 

"Not Downloaded
Only the headers for this message were downloaded from the mail server.
Click here to download the rest of the message."

The problem is that when I hit "here" my messages get deleted :( Basically, I'm not able to read the rest of the messages and they disappear from the messages list. I tried searching them using the Search Messages facility cause I thought they might have been moved elsewhere but it didn't help, apparently they were all gone.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Fetch headers only - ON
2. view the message
3. "Click here to download the rest of the message"
4. The message gets deleted (happens only in certain folders)

Actual Results:  
message deleted

Expected Results:  
the whole message downloaded from the server and displayed in the message pane or in a new message window

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

see other bugs: Bug 275594, Bug 287728

Comment 2

[keith.freeman]

This happens to me when I have two headers with the same Subject from the same sender. When I click "Download the rest of the message" TB downloads one of the messages and deletes the other on the server without downloading it. Result: second message irretrievably lost! TB 1.5.0.2 (20060308), Windows 2000.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

I don't think 287728 is related.  This might be a dupe of bug 265553.
Comment 2 here is an interesting observation.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

do you see this in version 2?

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Keith, your issue is unique.  please file a new bug.

reporter writes: I'm not able to answer it properly as I stopped using Windows (and Thunderbird as well) a long while ago.
so closing this bug incomplete (won't be able to test/verify any fixes)

Comment 6

[Paul-Gerhard Werner]

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:
- using a http://freemail.web.de freemail account (a popular freemail provider in germany)
- using the option "do not download messages larger than XX kB" (5kB is good
for reproducing) OR "download headers only"
- immediately downloading the rest of all truncated messages without waiting
for the POP3 poll time limit to expire (web.de freemail accounts: 15min) 
RESULT: DATALOSS (the first message may be retrieved correctly, but all others 
are gone / they disappear completely)

using thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (nothing changed since 1.0.3 :-( )

reproducible: always
severity: MAJOR / CRITICAL

duplicates of this bug: bug 118432, bug 225199, bug 275594, bug 322710, bug 337950, bug 362361, bug 368404, bug 265553