481803 - when work offline the nearby mails can be downloaded but the old mails can not

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 471695

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[liuchongjin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2) Gecko/20090126 Firefox/3.1b2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090224 Lightning/1.0pre Thunderbird/3.0b1 

Make the TB work offline, select "Download messages", the nearby mails(these days) can be downloaded but the old mails(many days ago) can not.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
This test assumes you have already selected a folder for offline use.

   1. Go to File | Offline | Work Offline
   2. Select the button that says "Download messages"

Actual Results:  
The nearby messages are downloaded ,but the old mails(many days ago) are not downloaded.

Expected Results:  
Confirm that Thunderbird downloads messages to the offline folder you have designated in your preferences. The status bar should show the messages as they are moved into the folder.

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

This is going to be the same issue as bug 471695 - we're doing a get mail, but we're not actually downloading all the emails.