497105 - Draft loses tags mark when saving after an edit

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 370260

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Benoît Rigaut]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.27.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525.27.1
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.21 (20090302)

A draft, already saved and tagged with one or several tags, loses the tags if I open the
draft, edit it and save it again.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Save a draft
2. Tag it with one or several tags
3. Open the draft in edit mode, change something in the message
4. Save the draft

Actual Results:  
The Tags are gone.


Expected Results:  
The Tags of a message should be the same after an "Edit as new"/"Save".


This bug is behaving the same as "Bug 483575 - Draft loses star mark when saving after an edit".

And maybe related to "Bug 497101 - it shoud be possible to set tags in the compose window (set tags to outbound messages)".

Comment 1

[Kent James (:rkent)]

Confirmed on recent trunk build.

This bug needs the same treatment that I am doing to deleting attachments in bug 340886, preserving message metadata during a file copy.

Comment 2

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

UIDPLUS is mandatory to implement "preserving message metadata during copy/append" correctly, isn't it?
For draft, other problems should be fixed to implement without UIDPLUS.
(A) Multiple "edit draft" for a draft mail use same message-id.
(B) If IMAP, multiple "edit draft" for a draft mail can happen on different PC.
    As message-id of original draft is used, similar proble to (A) occurs.

Comment 4

[klint]

It is also loosing TAGS put on a draft message after sending the message.

Use case is following: I want to mark "messages I'm waiting an answer for" with a tag (like "Expect Answer"), when composing the message. The TagToolbar extension would be very handy to do that.
Or whatever other tag to classify the message I'm sending.

On TB3.1RC2