760856 - Move local folder containing tagged messages to IMAP account/folder, messages do not have (imap) labels/tags

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Networking: IMAP, defect)

Description

[Ulf Zibis]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0
Build ID: 20120420145725

Steps to reproduce:

Mark some mails in local folder with any of the 5 predefined tags.
Move the local folder to IMAP folder by mouse.



Actual results:

Colouring, indicating catchwords of contained mails, is lost.
This is reverse behaviour of already fixed bug 362989.


Expected results:

Catchwords should be conserved.

Comment 1

[:aceman]

WADA, can you see this with IMAP?

Comment 2

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

(In reply to Ulf Zibis from comment #0)
> Move the local folder to IMAP folder by mouse.

As for "Drag&Drop of folder between accounts", it's "folder copy" instead of "folder move".
What is your operation for "move folder by mouse"?

Tb's tag is defined in prefs.js.
  Example of Important : mailnews.tags.$label1.tag = Important
In local mail folder, tag($label1 if Important) set for a mail is saved in X-Mozilla-Keys: header.
  What is saved in X-Mozilla-Keys: header?
If IMAP folder, Tb's tag is saved as "keyword(user defined flag)" in Mbox at IMAP server via "store +Flag $label1" upon mail copy(==mail upload via append command), and is reflected to local mail's status via "fetch Flags" command. 
Can you get IMAP log? (see bug 402793 comment #28)

Comment 3

[Ulf Zibis]

(In reply to WADA from comment #2)
> (In reply to Ulf Zibis from comment #0)
> > Move the local folder to IMAP folder by mouse.
> As for "Drag&Drop of folder between accounts", it's "folder copy" instead of
> "folder move".
> What is your operation for "move folder by mouse"?
Yes, I "Drag&Drop"ed the folder. The folder was added to the destination IMAP folders and deleted from the source Local folders. In my understanding this is a "folder move".

> Tb's tag is defined in prefs.js.
>   Example of Important : mailnews.tags.$label1.tag = Important
red: user_pref("mailnews.tags.$label1.tag", "Wichtig");
blue: user_pref("mailnews.tags.$label4.tag", "Zu erledigen");

> In local mail folder, tag($label1 if Important) set for a mail is saved in
> X-Mozilla-Keys: header.
>   What is saved in X-Mozilla-Keys: header?
red: X-Mozilla-Keys: $label1
blue: X-Mozilla-Keys: $label4

> Can you get IMAP log? (see bug 402793 comment #28)
Should I use? :
> Win example : SET NSPR_LOG_MODULES=timestamp,nsHttp:5,nsSocketTransport:5,nsHostResolver:5

Comment 4

[Ulf Zibis]

For a new try, to save the flags, I have added 2 folders in Local + IMAP account:
- red
- blue
Then I have moved all red flagged mails to Local red folder and blue red flagged mails to Local blue folder.
After I have moved all mails from Local red folder to IMAP red folder and all mails from Local blue folder to IMAP blue folder.
Result: In IMAP red folder all mails are coloured red, but in IMAP blue folder all mails are coloured black --> strange!!
In IMAP red Mbox file: X-Mozilla-Keys: $label1
In IMAP blue Mbox file: X-Mozilla-Keys: $label4
No "keyword(user defined flag)" in Mbox

Comment 5

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

(In reply to Ulf Zibis from comment #4)
> After I have moved all mails from Local red folder to IMAP red folder and
> all mails from Local blue folder to IMAP blue folder.

It sounds "Drag&Drop of selected mails from a local mail folder to IMAP mail folder".
However, your following bug summary and answer is apparently for "Drag&Drop of mail folder".
(Your bug summary)
> After moving local folder (snip)
(Your Comment #3)
> > What is your operation for "move folder by mouse"?
> Yes, I "Drag&Drop"ed the folder. The folder was added to the destination IMAP > folders and deleted from the source Local folders. In my understanding this is > a "folder move".

Are you reporting funny phenomenon for you to this bug report at bugzilla.mozilla.org for which of next?
  "Drag&Drop of mail folder(s)", or "Drag&Drop of mails", or Both

Comment 6

[Ulf Zibis]

The bug report in general is about "Drag&Drop of mail folder(s)".
The funny phenomenon with "Drag&Drop of mails" is only mentioned as an aside observation, which may give additional information.

Anyway, as both actions are related, you could treat them in one bug report if you like.

Comment 7

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Ulf, if you create your own custom tag (Tags > New Tag...) and apply it to some of the messages, then follow your steps for this bug, is the custom tag also lost?

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Ulf ??

Comment 9

[Ulf Zibis]

Can do this next week.

Comment 10

[Ulf Zibis]

Now I have tested again with TB 15.
- I created a local folder and copied some mails into it.
- I created a new custom tag "Funny" in light blue.
- I tagged some mails with red, blue, violet and light blue and some with both.
- With mouse I dragged and dropped the whole folder into an IMAP folder.
I didn't hold Ctrl-key, no '+' was visible, so the folder should have been "moved", but to my surprise the origin was not "deleted" (When first testing with TB 12 I'm pretty sure that the origin was deleted, why I named the bug summary as such.
--> Result: In the destination IMAP folder none of the colours were visible, so the tags have been lost.

Then I deleted the destination folder + additionally from the trash, to try it once more with hold Shift-key to force the "move". This time the origin remained again. Bug?
--> Result: In the destination IMAP folder now all of the colours were visible, so the tags have been saved. Is this, because I did it 2nd time?

A 3rd try reproduced the 2nd result.

Comment 11

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Does this happen with all ISPs, or only the gmx account?

Comment 12

[Ulf Zibis]

I tried again with TB 52.8.0 on Ubuntu with 3 IMAP Providers:
- imap.gmx.net
- imap.1und1.de
- wp215.webpack.hosteurope.de
I always got the same result:
- "move" folder from local to IMAP
-> all mails in folder are black, but in header e.g.: X-Mozilla-Keys: $label1
- delete folder in IMAP
- delete folder in IMAP trash
- "move" same folder again from local to IMAP
-> all mails in folder are colored correctly.

Comment 13

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

I can reproduce this - moving a FOLDER from local to imap does retain
 X-Mozilla-Keys: $labelN
but the messages in imap folder are not colored.

Moving individual messages works fine

Comment 14

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #13)

I can reproduce this - moving a FOLDER from local to imap does retain
X-Mozilla-Keys: $labelN
but the messages in imap folder are not colored.

Moving individual messages works fine

This might be bug 729732.

https://mzl.la/2YMhum8 from the past 4 years

Comment 15

[gene smith]

When the folder Local Folders/2018 is copied to an imap server, a new folder is created OK and then each message is imap append'ed to the new folder. Append allows the flags for the message to be included. However, tb is leaving off the user defined tags (keywords) from the command. I.e., I see this being sent for a message with the Important flag set:

...A:SendData: 6 append "2018" (\Seen) "04-Nov-2018 09:49:37 -0400" {48590}

Note that only the \Seen flag is sent even though the original message in Local Folders/2018 was marked 'important'.
But if the individual message is copied, the append includes several keywords, including the stand-in for "Important", $label1:

...S-2018:SendData: 18 append "2018" (\Seen nonjunk $notjunk $label1) "04-Nov-2018 09:49:37 -0400" {48590}

so the copied individual message does show the 'Important' tag at the destination. The question is, why the difference?

Comment 16

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

bug 760856 comment 10 "issue must be in the folder copy code." (vs copying individual messages)