500014 - Thunderbird cleans up folders when opening them

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 484445

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect)

Description

[Neil Katin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009061411 Gentoo Firefox/3.0.10 FirePHP/0.3
Build Identifier: 3.0b2

The behavior of thunderbird seems to have chaned in 3.0b2 as compared to 2.x.

I use imap, and have "just mark as deleted" set in account settings/server settings.  I also have the "clean up inbox on exit" setting cleared.

When I open folders now I sometimes see a message "cleaning up folder", and all my deleted messages are gone (cleaned up).

This is a change in behavior from 2.x.

I could not find a configuration property to control this behavior.


Reproducible: Sometimes

Comment 1

[rsx11m]

This sounds like a regression from bug 484445, which was fixed by bug 490934, the problem being that either of them was well after the Thunderbird 3.0 beta 2 release. Can you give the exact build date from Help > About?

Comment 2

[Neil Katin]

I'm looking at about -> help, and I don't see a date; it just says "version 3.0b2".  If it helps at all this version came along with fedora 11.

Comment 3

[Neil Katin]

I went and looked at 484445, and tried the workaround it suggested: mail.imap.expunge_threshold_number to a large number.

The fix in bug 484445 was targeted to 3.0b3, so it makes sense that I wouldn't have seen the fix.

I'm going to close this as a duplicate, and apologize for wasting the bug reviewers time (honest: I did look for dups first! :->)

Comment 4

[rsx11m]

Ok, good. Thus you are looking at the pre-484445 status whereas I only noticed that problem after the fix for that bug was checked in. Reading its description again, it sounds like that's indeed what you encountered.