432638 - replied and forwarded messages do not change their flags (status, icons) if a reply was in the meanwhile saved as a draft (IMAP)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 128996

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[prugimagi]

User-Agent:       Opera/9.26 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en)
Build Identifier: 2.0.0.14 (20080421)

In the event one replies or forwards an incoming message in IMAP folder with intermeadiately saving the reply or forward message as a draft (no matter in local or remote drafts folder) and then re-opened again and then sent, the original incoming messaage do not change its flag (status, icon) for "replied" or "forwarded" accordingly. 
Is tested for many servers and many accounts, some other users confirm this bug too.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a compose window to reply some message in Inbox of IMAP folder (account).
(The same problem with forwarding message).
2. Write something in replying.
3. Save the reply message in local or remote folder "Drafts".
4. Close the compose window.
5. Go to the "Drafts" and open the unsent draft of the message.
6. OPTIONALLY: modify the message again (write or delete something etc)
7. Send now your reply or forward.
Actual Results:  
Go back to Inbox: you'll see, that the icon of the replied or forwarded message is as clear as was before, its status (flag) has not changed.

Expected Results:  
Replied or forwarded message status (flag) should change after I replied or forwaded it.

The problem was previosly discussed in MozillaZine forum and tested by other users with different servers. Confirmed.

Comment 1

[John]

I have the same problem but I don't use IMAP, just conventional POP3/SMTP. The problem is exactly as described above.

Comment 2

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Try 3.0alpha1, this was fixed by bug 128996.