Bug 477724

Summary: the Offline ＆ Disk Space settings doesn't do any effort on the folder properties
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Vivian Bian <vbian>
Component: thunderbirdAssignee: Gecko Maintainer <gecko-bugs-nobody>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: desktop-bugs <desktop-bugs>
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Version: 4.8Keywords: Desktop
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Description Vivian Bian 2008-12-23 03:46:47 UTC 
Description of problem:
After Set the last *number* of messages in the Edit->Account Settings->Offline & Disk Space,the folder properties still keep the default setting

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
thunderbird-1.5.0.12-18.el4 

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to Edit->Account Settings->Offline & Disk Space
2. check option "Delete all old messages but the last *number* messages", set $NUMBER to 1.
3.click "OK"
4.choose any folder of this account, go to Edit->Folder Properties, in Tab "Retention Policy"
  
Actual results:
In the Folder Properties the "Retention Policy" the checked option is still the default one "Don't delete any messages"

Expected results:
option "Delete all  but the last 2 messages" is checked in the Folder Properties the "Retention Policy"

Additional info:
in fedora 9 there is also the problem thunderbird-2.0.0.14-1.fc9
Comment 1 Matěj Cepl 2009-01-16 11:46:18 UTC 
I don't think this will be fixed for RHEL4, which support covers now only security and major bugs.

Closing as WONTFIX.