633426 - False unsent message in outbox

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, defect)

Description

[ltekob]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13
Build Identifier: 3.1.7

Every time I start Thunderbird, I get a drop-down message asking me if I want to send unsent messages in the outbox.  The outbox shows one unsent message, until I select it.  Upon selecting the outbox, the message count goes to zero, and there are no unsent messages in the outbox. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Thunderbird
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Actual Results:  
I get the drop-down message

Expected Results:  
Not shown an unsent message in the outbox if there was none.

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Does rebuidling the index of the outbox folder fixes the issue ?

Comment 2

[ltekob]

I don't know what you mean by "rebuilding the index of the outbox folder."  If you could tell me how to do that, I'd love to try.

Comment 3

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Sure my bad :-) Right click on the outbox -> properties -> Repair folder.

Comment 4

[ltekob]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Sure my bad :-) Right click on the outbox -> properties -> Repair folder.

Worked like a champ - Thanks!

Comment 5

[Andreas Hüller]

I have exactly the same problem here with my Thunderbird 7.0.1 (running on Windows 7 Home Premium x64).
Unfortunately, folder / index repair does not resolve the issue (the "zombie" message is still present each time I start Thunderbird until I click on the outbox folder once).
I also tried the same in SafeMode (= no Add-ons) with no success.

As I am unable to re-open this bug but also don't want to file a new one, I hope the a bug tracker manager will read this and consider re-opening.