39124 - 3pane, Disable "Empty Trash" for IMAP Mark as deleted & Remove Immediately modes

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[laurel]

Using 2000-05-12-10m16 commercial builds
See related bug #39121

Menu item Empty Trash should be disabled when an IMAP account is selected which
has its delete mode pref set to Remove Immediately.  

I'm using 4.x behavior as my basis.  4.x disables the menu item immediately upon
confirming the pref change to Remove Immediately.

Comment 1

[laurel]

Also applies with Mark As Deleted delete mode set.

Comment 2

[scottputterman]

nominating as nsbeta3 polish

Comment 3

[lchiang]

per mail triage:  remove nsbeta3 nomination and move to future milestone.  For
the short term, we will combine items here into three bugs (in 3pane) to address
for nsbetat3:  1. delete, change text, move menuitems;  2. enable/disable and
text changes on context (dynamic);  3.  accelerator keys to work.

When this bug gets revisited after the first release, we'll need to see what
items remaining that need to be addressed.

Comment 4

[Karen Huang]

Is this target milestone still Future? We should disable this menu item 
earlier......

Comment 5

[scottputterman]

reassigning to ssu.  Yes, it's still future.  If you think it shouldn't be, then
you should nominate it for reevaluation.

Comment 6

[Blake Ross]

Should this item really be disabled?  I notice that I have plenty of stuff in my
trash and yet I've got my prefs here set to Remove Immediately.  I either
changed it at some point or I have different work/home prefs, but either way,
it's possible and easy to have stuff in your trash regardless of your mode.

Comment 7

[laurel]

It's not whether there is anything in your trash, it's whether Empty Trash is
valid for that certain IMAP delete setting.  I don't believe it's a valid
command when you  have delete immediately (or mark as deleted) as the setting.  

Comment 8

[Josh Triplett]

I think it makes sense to remove the "Empty Trash" command when using "delete immediately".  However, when using "mark as deleted", Thunderbird should provide a trash folder which shows the mails marked as deleted in all folders, and "empty trash" should compact the folders to make those messages go away permanently.