65029 - New: mail isn't deleted from Inbox on disk - "secretly" duplicates

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect)

Description

[R.K.Aa.]

2001010921 linux

For each mail i delete from mailbox, the total count of mails goes down with 2.
I have over 80 mails left in inbox, but the count is now at 37.
Not sure i want to know what happens when it pass 0

(It is only the counting that is wrong - it doesnt' actually delete more mails
than expected.)

This message or similar displays in console when i delete a mail:

tree is valid
Didn't find X-Mozilla-Status where expected at position 4709610
instead, found .
mailbox_message://[e-mail]/Inbox#4756078

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

odd. Bug gone again in build 2001011021.
WFM. Btw.. when the count got to 0 it remains 0 for deletes after that :)

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

uh oh - reopening. Something is wrong.
I deleted all mail in inbox.
Then dragged them all FROM trash TO inbox again.
At first all looked OK - 88 mails.
On next start, mailnews told there were over 300 mails in inbox.

I then deleted all mails again and emptied trash.
Then i looked at .mozilla/Default/myprofile/Mail

Inbox there was 5 MB big.

I moved that,, quit mozilla, and did cat /dev/null > Inbox

Then started mozilla.
Inbox at first click got an "uninutialized" error i lost.

I then sent myself one testmail, which arrived and counted as one mail.
I deleted that mail.
Then dragged it from trah to inbox.
In mailnews GUI Inbox just showed one mail - the testmail.
But doing a "cat Inbox" from console, now showed TWO instances of the same mail.

Each time i drag the mail from trash to Inbox and delete it again, the real
Inbox on disk will contain one extra copy. So it increments.

After the first drag of the mail (from trash to inbox), each successive delete
produced the same error as initially reported:

tree is valid
Didn't find X-Mozilla-Status where expected at position 4709610
instead, found .

Comment 3

[R.K.Aa.]

changing summary (was: each mail deleted reduces mailcount with 2)
New: mail isn't deleted from Inbox on disk
--
And it doesnt seem they are. I nulled out Inbox and Inbox.msf and tried again.
After re-initializing the files and getting a mail, I deleted it in mailnws and
emptied trash.

ls -la Trash now showed 0 bytes
ls -la Inbox showed 817 bytes - the content benig the mail i tested with.

expected: No hidden content in Inbox after Trash is emptied.

Or am i missing something?

Comment 4

[R.K.Aa.]

I guess this must be a dup of something. Heaps of bad behaviour here.
-I nulled Inbox files and Trash files now.
-Then copied back the first Inbox file, 5 MB, where error was first seen.

This should - and did - create a new Inbox.msf file.

Looking at the content of Inbox in Mailnews now, it displayed two copies of each
and every mail there. I suddenly had 222 mails. I didnt even know i had more
than around 90, but this new figure exceeded double that amount, in other words.

Clicking on the twin mails show different Inbox#'s in console, but they are
otherwise identical in content and timestamp.

OpenURL from XUL
mailbox_message://[e-mail]/Inbox#293062

OpenURL from XUL
mailbox_message://[e-mail]/Inbox#5306298

Comment 5

[R.K.Aa.]

an even better summary. CC naving.

Comment 6

[R.K.Aa.]

upping severity. My mailbox is getting completely messed up by this.

Comment 7

[Tim Wheeler]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; m18) Gecko/20010119

This seems to be affecting Windows builds as well.  Whenever I move mail from
inbox to the trash (delete), or any other folder, the mail resurrects in my
inbox the next time I start Mozilla.  No fun whatsoever.

Comment 8

[Greg Miller]

There are multiple issues here:

(1) Empty trash doesn't remove the message from the Inbox. It didn't do that in
4.x and AFAIK, it's not supposed to. Compacting the folder is supposed to do that.

(2) Compacting the inbox folder doesn't do anything. This didn't work until
recently and now it's regressed again. There are several open bugs on this.

(3) Deleted messages reappear when the message summary file is rebuilt. This bug
has been in every version of Mozilla so far, AFAIK. It was in 6.0PR1 and the
corresponding milestone, at the very least. When compacting works, you can work
around this one by compacting the folder every time you delete messages, but
right now you're stuck. There's at least one open bug for this one as well.

Comment 9

[Greg Miller]

Forgot to cc myself...

Comment 10

[Olivier Dragon]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i686; en-US; 0.8.1) Gecko/2001030621

It happens to me too. Only my inbox gets flooded with emails I've moved in other
folders only when I change to a new nightly. Whether or nor I restard
mailnews/mozilla doesn't matter.

Comment 11

[Keyser Sose]

*** Bug 69477 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[matt andrews]

a couple of additional observations (based on 0.8 and 0.81 on Windows2000):

 - this reappearance of messages occurs after moving messages to other folders,
not just after deleting them.
 
 - the effect occurs with "Sent" folders, not just "Inbox" folders.
 
 - the effect appears not to occur simultaneously across all accounts' Inbox and
Sent folders, but more unpredictably.  i find that sometimes the Inbox on one
mail account will have all its messages reappear, but not in the Sent folder,
and another account will have reappearance in the Sent folder and not the Inbox,
and another mail account will not have the effect at all.  but all my mail
accounts have suffered the effect in Inbox and Sent folders several times.

Comment 13

[Navin Gupta]

I fixed the problem, first reported, when this bug was opened. See #65630. 
I don't remember whether the fix was in moz 0.8 /0.8.1. But it should be 
fixed in latest nightly builds. Marking worksforme. Reopen if you see in the 
latest build. 

Comment 14

[Sheela Ravindran]

There were related bugs with delete messages that have been fixed and verified. 
 Therefore, verifying this bug as worksforme as well.
reopen if this is seen again