730802 - email replaced when un-archiving

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[andreea.picu]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.1
Build ID: 20120213092145

Steps to reproduce:

-- Accidentally archived a couple of the latest emails in my Inbox (typed A unaware that the Thunderbird window had focus).
-- Un-archived those emails, by going to the archives, selecting them, and moving them back to the Inbox



Actual results:

-- Back to the Inbox, the restored emails now still have the same headers, but the content is (very strangely) that of the oldest email in my Inbox
-- Archive and un-archive the same emails again and the headers change as well (again, to the oldest email in my Inbox)



Expected results:

-- The un-archived emails should have had their original content and headers.

Comment 1

[Hashem Masoud]

(In reply to andreea.picu from comment #0)
Are you using gmail IMAP?

Comment 2

[andreea.picu]

No I'm not.
Also, in case it matters: archives are in Local Folders.

Comment 3

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Can you repair the folder and see if that helps ?

Comment 4

[andreea.picu]

I don't understand what you mean by "repair" the folder.

Comment 5

[andreea.picu]

Sorry, just found the "repair" feature. So, repairing the Inbox restores the email.
Still, this does not seem normal... Why is a "repair" feature needed in the first place?

Comment 6

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

because the db we use is fragile - see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Compacting_folders for some insights.