660496 - Deleting mail from a trash folder should require confirmation

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1133264

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, enhancement)

Description

[Jeff Grossman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:6.0a2) Gecko/20110528 Firefox/6.0a2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:7.0a1) Gecko/20110527 Thunderbird/7.0a1

I am using Gmail with Thunderbird, but I don't think that matters.  Any IMAP server would do the same.  I have the move to trash model setup.  I think if you delete a message or multiple messages from the trash folder, a confirmation box saying "Are you sure?" should come up.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Stephanie Daugherty [:sdaugherty]]

The trash folder itself is supposed to be the confirmation or undo step. I 
could see a confirmation being desireable when bypassing the trash folder, but 
not to delete from the trash folder.

Comment 2

[Jeff Grossman]

I disagree.  Gmail's web client and Microsoft Outlook give you a confirmation dialog box when deleting from the trash folder.  Once it is deleted from trash there is no chance of ever getting the message back.  We need to have a confirmation.

Comment 3

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

no dupes here...
Jeff, could you try to see if option mail.emptyTrash.dontAskAgain is true?

Search from menu-->tools-->options, tab "advanced" and click on "Config editor" button.

If mail.emptyTrash.dontAskAgain = true, toggle it

Comment 4

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

(In reply to comment #3)
> no dupes here...
> Jeff, could you try to see if option mail.emptyTrash.dontAskAgain is true?
> 
> Search from menu-->tools-->options, tab "advanced" and click on "Config
> editor" button.
> 
> If mail.emptyTrash.dontAskAgain = true, toggle it

my post is referred to case when user click on "empty trash" menu item

Comment 5

[Jeff Grossman]

(In reply to comment #3)
> no dupes here...
> Jeff, could you try to see if option mail.emptyTrash.dontAskAgain is true?
> 
> Search from menu-->tools-->options, tab "advanced" and click on "Config
> editor" button.
> 
> If mail.emptyTrash.dontAskAgain = true, toggle it

No, that setting is false for me.  Just so we are clear, I am referring to a single or multiple messages, but not using the Empty Trash menu option.  But, actually I think all three cases, single message, multiple messages, and Empty Trash menu option should require a Are You Sure? confirmation box.