333005 - Detach attachment removes mail from server

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Attachments, defect)

Description

[robert.boeck]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060130 SeaMonkey/1.0 Mnenhy/0.7.3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060130 SeaMonkey/1.0 Mnenhy/0.7.3.0

In the Server Settings of my POP3 mail accounts I have the following settings:
[x] Leave messages on server
 [x] Until I delete or move them from Inbox

When I detach an attachment, the related mail is removed from the POP3 server.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. setup an POP3 mail account al follows:
   [x] Leave messages on server
    [x] Until I delete or move them from Inbox
3. receive mails with attachments
3. open a mail with an attachment
4 [review]. right click into attachments and chose "Detach All"
5. receive new mails from the POP3 server
Actual Results:  
The mail is removed from the POP3 server.

Expected Results:  
The mail should not be removed from the POP3 server, because it neither was deleted nor it was moved from the inbox.

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

I suspect this happens because internally, removing the attachment involves making a new message w/o the attachment and deleting the original. If so, this might be tricky to fix.

Comment 2

[robert.boeck]

I believe there's another bug concerning to this behaviour. I've sorted the mails by "Order Received". If I detach an attachment from a mail, the related mail is sorted as the latest mail that was received, even if the mail was an old one.

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

that's just the way it works, since order received sorts by order in the mailbox, and detaching involves rewriting the message at the end of the mailbox.

Comment 4

[robert.boeck]

This is quite confusing. If the order is by received, I expect the order by the date really received. If the message is rewritten internally, I don't be interested about the date rewritten. Althouh I'm a programmer, I'm behaving like an user in this case.

Comment 5

[robert.boeck]

POP3 mails aren't deleted after detaching attachments anymore.