377852 - Deleting Attachments on IMAP server stopped working

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Peter Gruendler]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: 20070415

Trying to "delete" an attachment from a message on an IMAP server brings up the AlertBox:
"The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Empty message to APPEND"
This happens when
a) trying to delete the single attachment
b) trying to delete one of several attachments
c) trying to delete all of several attachments

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. select a message with one or several attachments
2. right click over an attachments icon
3. select "delete" from the context menu.
Actual Results:  
the confirmation dialog shows, after selecting "ok" the Alert shows up. The mail message is left unchanged.

Expected Results:  
deletion of the attachment.

This feature seems to have worked unreliable for a long time, became better several weeks ago and has now been broken for a week or so.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

What version are you using? Trunk?

Comment 2

[Peter Gruendler]

current nightly builds (auto updated until 20070415, then stopped because of the compose window bug)

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

prob my fault due to file spec work.

Comment 4

[David :Bienvenu]

Attachment: proposed fix

Comment 5

[David :Bienvenu]

fix checked in (this is probably windows-only)