833342 - Not syncing $Forwarded flag when using IMAP with SSL

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(MailNews Core :: Networking: IMAP, defect)

Description

[[e-mail]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0
Build ID: 20130107224849

Steps to reproduce:

forwarded a message (from an SSL IMAP account).


Actual results:

an orange arrow appeared; but only this was not updated on the courier imap server. So on other clients this orange arrow is not displayed. Also the forwarded messages as flagged on the imap server are not shown with an orange arrow when SSL is enabled.


Expected results:

The $Forwarded flag should have been set on the imap server so that other clients show the flag as well. If I disable SSL on the account it does work as expected. Also the messages that are on the server flagged as Forwarded are not shown when SSL is enabled. They are shown when SSL is disabled.

Comment 1

[[e-mail]]

tested on linux64, windows xp and windows 7. Thunderbird version: 17.0.2-ESR

Comment 2

[Vincent (caméléon)]

Same here, with imap.laposte.net and SSL connection. Also, when you restart Thunderbird, the forwarded flag has disappear.

Switching to unsecured connection on port 143 fix this issue.

Comment 3

[Vincent (caméléon)]

Attachment: log with SSL enable

To record this log I had:
1/ Launch Thunderbird
2/ Select a message in the trash folder from my laposte.net account
3/ forward it to a gmail account

Comment 4

[[e-mail]]

As it turns out it was a problem with Qmail-Toaster-Plus (QTP). The imaps server. Maybe also other qmail installs are affected.

To fix on qmail:

edit /etc/courier/imapd-ssl
add line: IMAP_KEYWORDS=1

after restarting qmail everything works as expected!

Verified on several QTP installs and also lots of thunderbird clients.

BR, Eelco

Comment 5

[Vincent (caméléon)]

are you sure that laposte.net runs a Qmail-Toaster-Plus server?

Comment 6

[[e-mail]]

I'm quite certain that they don't run courier on imap.laposte.net. But in my case the fault was clearly at the server side. The use of forward flags was disabled by default in imap-ssl by the QTP installer. As it is enabled in the non-ssl imap server; it's probably not by design.

So if QTP (qmail+courier) has this configuration fault; it could be that whatever imap server software laposte.net uses contains the same configuration fault.

Now that I changed the imap-ssl config to enable imap-flags; it works flawless with thundebird 17ESR. So I don't think that thunderbird is at fault.

If you want I could create an imap account for you on our QTP server so that you can test it yourself and see whether the problem is in your thunderbird or at laposte.net.

Just send me a PM if this is desired.

BR, Eelco Grakist

Comment 7

[Vincent (caméléon)]

thanks for the clarification, I think I will just contact their support service and make a prier...