513217 - Same mail being downloaded continuously when set to retain copy in server & hide store folder

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 263142

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[ashvinikumar]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.23 (20090812)

When we set in preferences as - Leave a copy in server and
hide the folder where mails are stored locally (we hide to avoid deletion/alteration by human error) - same mail will be downloaded continuously till we delete it from mail server (thru webmail). If we unhide the store folder then this problem is not there.  I feel this is bug. And it does not happen with other clients such as outlook & outlook express.

Thanks.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Set preferences as "leave a copy in server"
2.hide the store folder where mails are locally stored
3. send yourself a test mail and same mail will be delivered continuously till we delete mail from mail server.


Expected Results:  
Software should download mail only once.

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Are you using Pop or imap ? do you see any error message in tools->error console ?

Comment 2

[ashvinikumar]

I use POP Mail.
I do not see any errors messages related to this in error console.

Comment 3

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

It seems similar or dupe of bug #388062

Comment 4

[Eli]

Hello

It happened to me as well.
I solved the problem by 
1. DELETING the "Mail" folder, 
in: C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application
Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\<should be only folder>\
2. Re creating an EMPTY "Mail" folder.

Thunderbird created all files again and problem stopped.

(I posted the same reply on bug #388062)
Thank you.