340631 - Prompts for compact folders when switching to another folder after startup

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Mark Glover]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird version 1.5.0.4 (20060516)

I get the compact mail boxes dialog box when I select any folder after startup.  Nothing happens when I select OK (probably because there is no compaction possible!)

I have set Options / Advanced / Offline & Diskspace / Diskspace to 100 KB

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start TB.  Inbox is selected by default.
2.Select any other folder (even drafts folder which is empty)
3.

Actual Results:  
'Do you wish to compact all local and offline folders to save disk space?' dialogue appears.  If I select OK, nothing appears to happen.  If I select Cancel, nothing happens, and dialogue box appears not to come up again in the session.

Expected Results:  
I would not expect the dialogue box to come up, or if it does, I expect it to spend some time compacting mail boxes.

This bug has started to occur simultaneously with three others:

1.  Auto check of mail isn't happening after the first check on start up.
2.  Clicking on 'Get Mail' button does not work.
3.  On first startup, the number of unread messages in the Inbox is incorrectly reported as a higher number than the actual number, until I select another folder, then re-select the Inbox.

Comment 1

[Mark Glover]

Simultaneous bug #3 above appears to be bug 289674 or very similar.

Mark.

Comment 2

[Rolf Leggewie]

I can confirm this happening frequently in both mail and especially news in TB on Linux.