456847 - Thunberbird creates "Sent Mail" IMAP folder at startup when it was not supposed to

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Networking: IMAP, defect)

Description

[Joao Fraga]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1b1pre) Gecko/20080924032742 Shredder/3.0b1pre

Thunderbird insists in creating a "Sent Mail" IMAP folder, even when:

  1. The user chose in Copies & Folders not to save a copy of 
     sent messages
  2. Or the user chose in Copies & Folders to save a copy of 
     sent messages on a different folder.
  3. Or the "Sent Mail" folder was unsubscribed from Thunderbird

Even when Thunderbird is closed, the "Sent Mail" is removed through another IMAP client (or webmail interface), as soon as Thunderbird is started the "Sent Mail" folder is created again.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

workaround for case #3 + the rest of your description might be to delete panacea.dat from profile folder and restart

other parts of this are duplicate of existing bugs I think - does this fail for you also in TB version 2?

Comment 2

[Nikolay Shopik]

TB2 not creating folder sent until you send first email. At least 2.0.0.12 doesn't do so.

Comment 3

[Nikolay Shopik]

TB3 not creating any folder, and if it make so folder name will be just "Sent".

Comment 4

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

(In reply to comment #0)
>   1. The user chose in Copies & Folders not to save a copy of 
>      sent messages
>   2. Or the user chose in Copies & Folders to save a copy of 
>      sent messages on a different folder.
>   3. Or the "Sent Mail" folder was unsubscribed from Thunderbird

Were you using the "Sent Mail" folder as folder to save a copy of sent message before above operations?
If yes, Bug 100239 is probably root cause.
  - Due to Bug 100239, indicator of "Sent folder" is not removed from previously
    used folder for sent by above operations until restart of Tb.
    (This is one of reasons why icon is not changed until restart.)
  - Upon restart of Tb, the "Sent Mail" is still sent folder, then creation of
    "Sent Mail" is requested to IMAP server at early stage of restart.

You need to do next procedure to remove folder which was used as sent folder.
  1. Change "Sent Mail" to ordinal folder by removing pointer to "Sent Mail"
     from Copies&Folders setting of all identities.
     If you want to set "Copies&Folders not to save a copy of sent messages",
     you have to change pointer to folder before change to "Copies&Folders
     not to save a copy of sent messages".
     "Delete" doesn't exist in context menu of "Sent Mail" at this step.
  2. Restart Tb, and confirm that icon of "Sent Mail" is ordinal icon.
     "Delete" appears in context menu of "Sent Mail" at this step.
  3. Execute delete, unsubscribe etc. for "Sent Mail" if required.

Joao Fraga(bug opener), can you reproduce your problem even after above procedure?

Comment 5

[Joao Fraga]

WADA,

I haven't been able to reproduce the problem in the last versions of Thunderbird.
Sorry for taking so long to report back.