323866 - bulky mails disappear after move by drag and drop (corrupted .msf file)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 355591

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[mdp]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: version 1.6a1 (20060117)

I created a subfolder (say 'sf') in 'sent' folder
I moved 8 mails from 'sent' to 'sf'
'sf' showed 3 present mails (o.c. wrong) but 13 Mb size (correct)
(fyn the three mails are 4kb, 375 kb, 378 kb big)

Before posting I tested:
I moved a 10 Mb mail from 'sent' to 'sf'
- 'total' value and num of displayed mails did not change
- 'size' value correctly increased
I moved a 1 Kb mail from 'sent' to 'sf'
- this was correctly added to the 'total' value and it is displayed

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. made subfolder in 'inbox'
2. moved small file, it worked
3. moved big (6 Mb) file, it's there (mbox size increases) but doesn't show

Actual Results:  
(best described above)
Small mails are shown, big mails are not shown

Expected Results:  
(best described above)
(Ceteris paribus) every mail in the mbox file should be shown in the list

I also checked if this bug shows with incoming mails - I correctly received and displayed a 6.3 Mb mail.
I tried to move it in 'sf' and it worked - it is displayed (!) 
I so tried with an old mail again and it is now correctly displayed (!!)
The previous 'hidden' ones are still hidden

Comment 1

[Jean-Michel Reghem]

Don't know if it is the same bug ...
But ... it could be ...

Thunderbird 2.0b1pre 2006101803

--> mails in Local Folder --> XXX --> YYY (subfolders)
I was, by using drag and drop, moving +/- 30 emails to subfolder
Local Folder --> XXX --> ZZZ --> WWW

These 30 emails contains attachment like jar files, or doc and pdf

But the emails disappears ... only a very few of them was there ...
--> close TB
--> open TB
--> always there

--> compress folder WWW --> no effect
(and no effect on WWW.msf and physical WWW mbox folder)

--> close TB
--> delete WWW.msf
--> open TB
--> and the emails was there ... 


It was the first time i saw that ... and i'm using Branch 1.8.1 for more than 6 months ...

Cannot find an other bug in bugzilla matching a drag and drop disappears of mail a part this one ...

Comment 2

[Jean-Michel Reghem]

cannot succeed to reproduce it with the same group of mail :-(

Comment 3

[Jean-Michel Reghem]

Confirmed as reported by [e-mail]

So:
1) sending to you a mail with a big attachment (for me: 6.3Mo) ... if your smtp accept it ...
2) receive the mail
3) drag and drop to an other folder 
In my case the mail goes by filter to Local Folder --> XXX --> YYY (subfolders)
and i try to drag and drop to Local Folder --> XXX --> ZZZ

--> the mail doesn't appear ...
--> the mbox file was increased by 8Mo
--> compacting the folder has no effect
--> only way to solve the problem: Close TB and delete the ZZZ.msf file

Some interesting comments:
1) Using right-click--> Move To : no problem
--> the problem comes only with drag and drop
2) Drag and drop to trash --> no problem ...

Comment 4

[Jean-Michel Reghem]

Cannot test on 1.5.0.7 ... so setting version to 2.0
Is somebody can test on 1.5.0.7?

Comment 5

[Scott MacGregor]

we didn't get any traction on this in time for thunderbird 2.

Comment 6

[Andrew Williamson [:eviljeff]]

dup of 355591 ? or connected to it?

Comment 7

[Jean-Michel Reghem]

yes ... dupe
and new similar bug entered recently: bug 378838

Comment 8

[Jean-Michel Reghem]

bug 355591 is a dup of bug 368112 which is landed on trunk and branch 1.8.1.4
--> verified with test case of comment #3