94967 - Removing news account leaves old message files behind

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 128744

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect, P3)

Description

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Reproduction:
1. Create news account
2. Subscribe to several groups, download all messages of them
3. Delete account
4. Check News/ directory in your profile

Actual result:
The old message files are still there

Expected result:
All trails of the account are removed.

The message files are just a cache - they are stored on the server. So, removing
them is not dataloss.
The files are inaccessible from the GUI. If you recreate the account, (I guess)
that a new directory is created and the old files are ignored.

In other words, we waste diskspace.

Comment 1

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

Files we're leaving still:

news.mozilla.org (directory, which contains):
 *  hostinfo.dat
 *  .msf's for each newsgroup
and the newsrc-news.mozilla.org
news.mozilla.org.msf

Nominating, just in case we get time for this, or the fix is really easy (maybe
we have a leak or bad ref-counting, as I suspect we actually have code that
attempts disk cleanup).

Comment 2

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

mass re-assign.

Comment 3

[Henrik Lynggaard Hansen]

Found a dupe. This is also true for non-linux, and mail accounts.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 128744 ***

Comment 4

[Vedran Miletic]

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