363209 - Deleting a mailbox referenced by saved searches generates multiple IMAP errors.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 307343

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Matt Dudziak]

This problem present in version 3 alpha 1 (20061208) on Mac.

The problem is that if you have a saved search that is referencing IMAP mailboxes, deleting one (or more) of those IMAP mailboxes will cause error dialogs that say:

Alert

The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: SELECT failed: Can't open mailbox [path_to_mailbox]: no such mailbox.

Suggest that Thunderbird should do one of 2 things:

1) When you delete an IMAP mailbox, Thunderbird should remove that mailbox from any saved searches. Not ideal as the IMAP mailbox could be deleted from a different client.

2) Gracefully deal with the error. Refresh the mailbox list from the IMAP server, removing references to any mailboxes that have been removed from the server


To reproduce:

- Create an IMAP mailbox and put some test messages in it
- Create a saved search that references the IMAP mailbox created above, as well as some other IMAP mailboxes
- Verify saved search works, finding messages in the IMAP mailbox created above
- Delete the IMAP mailbox created above
- Click the saved search in the Folder pane
- Note the IMAP error about the mailbox not being found.

This is not a big deal if you only have one saved search, and only delete one mailbox, but if you have multiple searches, and delete multiple referenced mailboxes, you get multiple, multiple error messages...

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Dupe of bug 307343?