388417 - Setting retention policy causes "check this folder for new messages" to be ignored

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Jason Keirstead]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20061201 Firefox/2.0.0.4 (Ubuntu-feisty)
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.4 (20070604)

I have an IMAP folder that gets hundreds of emails a day, on which I have a retention policy of 14 days. I have "check this folder for new messages" unchecked, because I do not want to recieve system tray notifications for new emails in this folder.

What I find is that if the retention policy is enabled, Thunderbird totally ignores my "check this folder" setting and alerts me if there are new emails in this folder anyway.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Get an IMAP account with per-folder filtering
2.Do not enable "check this folder for new messages" for a folder
3.Enable a retention policy for the same folder
4.Send an email that will go into that folder
Actual Results:  
You will get a notification in the system tray and/or a sound saying you have a new email

Expected Results:  
You should get no notification

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Hmm, as a workaround you might try to set mail.purge.timer_interval to something higher than 5 min. I assume it's because it's opening the folder to possibly do cleanup.

Comment 2

[Jason Keirstead]

Just as a note, the below does not help at all (still alerts every time it checks for new messages in that account), so it seems like it is not connected to this setting.

(In reply to comment #1)
> Hmm, as a workaround you might try to set mail.purge.timer_interval to
> something higher than 5 min. I assume it's because it's opening the folder to
> possibly do cleanup.
> 

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Tried setting retention policy for a folder that get server side filtered mail. Seems fine to me, I get no alerts.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

related to bug 496119?

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Jason seems to be gone but Magnus indicates WFM.
=> incomplete