82696 - Mail deleted in offline mode doesn't "migrate" when going online again

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Backend, defect)

Description

[Roger Martensson]

Bug number 76668 is fixed but the deleted mail doesn't get removed when going 
online again. (Shouldn't a Sync happen when going online?).

If I go offline again THEN the deleted mail gets removed from the IMAP server.
(checked using mailx -f in a unix enviroment).

BuildID: 2001052420

Comment 1

[grylchan]

Roger can you post a step by step instructions on what you
exactly did? thanks

Comment 2

[Roger Martensson]

I) Go Offline(and Download)
II) Open a folder with messages
III) Mark All and Delete
IV) Go online(And Send)
V) Check with "mailx -f" on Folder to see messages is still there
VI) Use Download/Synch Now. Check Mail messages only.
VII) Check with "mailx -f" and messages are still there
VIII)Go Offline(and Download)
IX) Check with "mailx -f" and messages are removed from Folder.

Same BuildID as above.

Comment 3

[grylchan]

Using branch build  2001-06-07-13-0.9.1/ on NT 4.0.

This is what I found out. Again Roger if I don't have something
correct please let me know.

You have an imap mail account. For deleting mail
you have it set to "Move it to the trash folder".

You then do these simplified steps (not quite as elaborate
as your steps to reproduce but I think you'll see the
same problem)
-Start messenger
-login to your imap acct
-download a folder or some mesages (by any means)
-have another folder or some messages that haven't been downloaded
-go offline (can say yes you want to download your messages)
-delete some downloaded/non-downloaded messages
-go to trash folder and verify they are now there
-go to File|Empty trash
-verify the messages in trash folder are gone
-go back online (can say yes send unsent mesgs)
-go to the trash folder
-messages are still there.

In 4.x, if I repeat the same steps, when I go online, the messages
are not present in the trash folder.

I assume this is the problem you are talking about and that
this is a bug?

marking as new

Comment 4

[David :Bienvenu]

No, that's a different bug - empty trash is not implemented offline. 

Comment 5

[grylchan]

ok, I'll create a new bug on the emtpy trash doesn't work while offline.

all right, if I follow Roger's exact steps to reproduce
(assuming he has trash mode set to "Move it to the trash folder"
and he wants messages to be actually downloaded), 
I can confirm that yes messages aren't really removed from the
folder until you go offline again.

Comment 6

[David :Bienvenu]

Is the folder that you deleted the messages in configured for offline use?

I tried the following steps which worked fine.

1. Go offline.
2. Select a folder with 30 messages (none downloaded for offline use, but that
shouldn't matter.
3. Ctrl A to select all
4. Delete.
5. click the online/offline icon (at this point, I can see that we're sending
the commands to the server to move the messages to the trash)
6. Select another folder and go back to the original folder. The messages are
all deleted.

How are you going online? Are you using the menu item? It shouldn't matter, but
I can try that.

Comment 7

[grylchan]

Hey David.

I was using the online/offline icon to go online/offline.

If I follow your steps to reproduce, you are correct
that it does work. 

(I'm using branch build 20010724 on NT 4.0).


I think the key thing here is when you visit the folder
(that you deleted the messages from while offline) after
going back online. Until you click on another folder
then go back to the original folder where you deleted mesgs from, the
messages won't truly be deleted.

For your steps (I broke up last step into 2 steps):
>5. go online
>6. Select another folder 
>7. go back to the original folder. The messages are all deleted.

I was using the mboxutil command (I'm using messaging server 4.15).
Before doing step 6, I would use the mboxutil and it would
show my messages still in the folder, even though visually
it appeared messages were removed from the folder. After
doing step 6, the mboxutil still shows messages in that folder.
But as soon as I did step 7 the mboxutil showed the folder empty.

I think that is what Roger was talking about. In his steps
he doesn't say clicking on another folder, so I am assuming
he still has the original folder selected (like I did) and
when you run whatever command to verify messages in that folder
were deleted, it would show they had not. 

For what it's worth, when I followed Roger's steps, after
I did a download and sync, the mboxutil showed the folder
empty.

So if you don't see any problem, I'll mark this
as 'works for me' when you comment back.

Comment 8

[David :Bienvenu]

It is true that if you select a folder which has offline events, like deletes,
to playback, it will play them back. So if the going online didn't do the sync,
selecting the folder would. But, when I did it, I could see the playback
happening when I went online, before I selected the folder.

The other thing is, mboxutil is probably making a second connection to the
folder in question, and the first connection may not have flushed its state to
disk so that the second connection would see the new state (i.e., the state
where the deleted messages were actually deleted). So, I'm pretty tempted to
mark this works for me as well.

Comment 9

[grylchan]

Ok. I'm going to mark this as works for me.

Thanks David.