375037 - can not see the saved draft in draft folder if i had sent the message at the end of the test

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[lijuan wang]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070312 Firefox/2.0.0.2
Build Identifier: 2007031216




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open a new mail compose
2.make some modifications
3.select File | Save from menu
4.send the mail out
5.visit the Drafts folder.
6.repeat steps 1,2,3,5
Actual Results:  
after#5:
(1)can not see the saved draft in draft folder if i had sent the message at the end of the test.
(2)there is no 'Edit Draft' button available which brings up the compose window for the Draft.

after#6:
(1)can see the saved draft in draft folder if i had sent the message at the end of the test.
(2)there is no 'Edit Draft' button available which brings up the compose window for the Draft.



Expected Results:  
You should see the saved draft in the folder, whether or not you had sent the message at the end of the test. There should also be an Edit Draft button available which brings up the compose window for the Draft.

Comment 1

[Jason Spiro]

What Thunderbird version?

What operating system?  (Solaris?)  What OS version?

Comment 2

[lijuan wang]

What Thunderbird version?
version 2 beta 2 (2007031216)

What operating system?  (Solaris?) 
Opensolaris

vermillion_build61_dev_XSparc

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Drafts are always deleted once you send the message, that's what a draft is. If you want to use it several times, save it as a template. 

Or did I not understand that correctly?

Comment 4

[lijuan wang]

Maybe i should update the expected result in the test case.

Comment 5

[emily chen]

As comments #3 said, it is not a bug in Thunderbird. Need to update the test case in Litmus. So close this bug.