622794 - Archiving my year/month doesn't create the monthly folder

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, defect)

Description

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

My settings are as follow :
mail.server.default.archive_granularity   2
mail.identity.default.archive_granularity 1

This my POP account , so everything is on local folders.

2010 is missing both November and December months.
2011 hasn't create the January folder yet.

My workflow is as follow  :

 filter my emails (ie mostly my FB spam)
 mark them unread -> Archive

Hint for regression hunting, First email that didn't get into it's folder is dated : 26/10/10 13:49. The last one that ended up in a monthly subfolder is dated 26/10/10 9:28. I'm guessing I changed nightly builds between those two archive batches.


Expected results  :

  Mail are moved into Year/Month folders

Results :
 Mail are moved in Year folder

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Note I haven't tested in -safe-mode.

Comment 2

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Requesting blocking as it's a regression.

Comment 3

[Jens Hatlak (:InvisibleSmiley)]

http://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/081b2f960f1b -> Bug 517514

AFAICS this still works in SM (changed pref to 2, then archiving created and moved to the corresponding Year-Month folder which didn't exist before), so it's probably in TB-only code (see comment 20 over there where bienvenu ported stuff I originally introduced for SM; maybe that part broke it). Haven't actually checked TB, this is all just an educated guess.

Comment 4

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

This comment on that bug reveals all:

(In reply to Bug 517514 comment #21)
> Which reminds me, I'm not migrating the old prefs, since they were hidden, and
> I think we're going to have UI for the new prefs.

So in Ludovic's case, mail.server.default.archive_granularity is set to monthly but is now obsolete. mail.identity.default.archive_granularity is set to yearly. Change the identity version and it'll do what you want.

Comment 5

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Some docs on mozillazine need updating eric, that's why I'm ccing you.

Comment 6

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Rafael can we add to the next release notes ?

Comment 7

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

(In reply to comment #6)
> Rafael can we add to the next release notes ?

I'd rather only relnote this if it becomes apparent it is a significant issue (if so, we should consider migrating the pref). Given that this is/was a hidden pref, I don't think it is relnote worthy.