Bug 472030
| Summary: | Retention policy doesn't work on thunderbird when incoming server is IMAP | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | koka xiong <kxiong> |
| Component: | thunderbird | Assignee: | Gecko Maintainer <gecko-bugs-nobody> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 8 | CC: | gecko-bugs-nobody, mcanonic, mcepl, mharris |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2008-11-18 22:59:29 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
koka xiong
2008-11-18 11:55:49 UTC
You have to run File/Compact Folders to make the policy active for the first time. NOTABUG Thank you Matej Cepl.I have tried as you tell.But I find one issue:to make the policy active, every time I need to compact Folders,not just for the first time. I chose "File->Compact Folders" in 2.0.0.21 and it does not seem to work, however if I right click directly on the folder with a retention policy and choose the "Compact" option, it causes the folder to flush mail older than the retention timeframe. I'm not sure if thunderbird will auto-flush mail in that folder afterward or not, or if you have to constantly manually choose "compact". What is odd is that I have thunderbird also configured to automatically compact mailboxes if 10000 bytes would be saved and that feature does not cause the mail to be flushed either. Personally, I still consider this a bug because the majority of users who choose to set a retention policy of n days are neither informed that, nor are they likely to guess that they have to perform another action like "compact". So if it isn't considered a bug per se. then it definitely is a design flaw. Having said that, it probably belongs in the upstream bugzilla I guess. Hopefully thunderbird 3 has a more intuitive design that works like one would expect. :) Well, I think there is something that is not working properly here. If I can accept to manually compact the folder in order to have my retention policy applied, I can accept the random deletion of my emails. I have a IMAP account and my "Sent" folder retention policy says: "Delete all but the last 4920 messages". The folder is sort by ascending date, so the oldest mail should be the first to be deleted, but when I compact this folder, the email deleted is someone in the middle of my list. Why? Is it a bug? In my other POP account, everything perfectly works (to run the retention policy, I just have to jump over the folders, without compacting the folder). What can I do? I'm using 2.0.0.23 TB, but even in TB3 there is this bug. Thanks, M |