452406 - First account configured deletes emails

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 112356

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Andrew Ballance]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1
Build Identifier: 2.0.0.16 (20080708)

When you first run Thunderbird, it asks for the details of a single email account. It does not provide an option to leave messages on the server and does not warn that messages will be deleted from the server. This leads to a loss of data on the server that has not been requested.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Thunderbird
2. Run first time, configure email account when prompted
3. wait for emails to download
4. check email account online
5. observe that there are no emails in the inbox

Actual Results:  
as stated above

Expected Results:  
Still have emails (assumes option to leave them on server is desired)

Comment 1

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

Either bug 112356 or bug 231541 work well as dupe targets.

Please search before filing bugs.