655357 - Auto-Expunge: mail.imap.expunge_option = 1 doesn't execute expunge immediately, but only while TB-shutdown

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(MailNews Core :: Networking: IMAP, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:5.0a2) Gecko/20110506 Thunderbird/3.3a4pre

I would expect "mail.imap.expunge_option = 1" to execute expunge immeditaley (when removing a message immediately, e. g. via [shift]+[del]).
However it only expunges while shutting down Thunderbird.

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http://kb.mozillazine.org/Deleting_messages_in_IMAP_accounts#Misc
mail.imap.expunge_option
- 0 means it will never occur
- 1 means it always occurs
- 2 means expunge the deleted messages when there are at least 20 messages waiting to be expunged. You can change the threshold using mail.imap.expunge_threshold_number. 
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Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[monperrus]

Have you set mail.imap.expunge_after_delete to true?

Comment 2

[Narcis Garcia]

Mozilla Thunderbird 60.9.0
mail.imap.expunge_option = 1
mail.imap.expunge_after_delete = true

Moving messages from account A to account B.
I still find messatges in IMAP folders with other mail clients, with only hidden/deleted mark.
Only going to File menu -> Quit (and waiting a slow M.Thunderbird finish) I reach those messages to be expunged.

Comment 3

[Alexey Kuznetsov]

Thunderbird 102.13.0

mail.imap.expunge_option = 1
mail.imap.expunge_after_delete = true

Messages only got deleted after I quit and start it AGAIN. Also tried all combination of these:

mail.imap.expunge_option = 2
mail.imap.expunge_after_delete = true
mail.imap.expunge_threshold_number = 1

mail.imap.expunge_option = 0
mail.imap.expunge_after_delete = true

Comment 4

[monperrus]

TB 126.0b3, confirming that mail.imap.expunge_option = 1 doesn't execute expunge immediately, even with mail.imap.expunge_after_delete = true

Comment 6

[monperrus]

mail.imap.expunge_option = 1 means that it will always happen when restarting.

the doc at unofficial website http://kb.mozillazine.org/Deleting_messages_in_IMAP_accounts is incomplete.