Bug 3842

Summary: Disturbing double bug: Instead of deleting e-mails, Claws Mail severely messes up the "Sent" folder
Product: Claws Mail (GTK 2) Reporter: Joe <clawsmail>
Component: FoldersAssignee: users
Status: RESOLVED INVALID    
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Version: 3.15.0   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   

Description Joe 2017-06-23 14:39:49 UTC
Hi everyone,

first of all a big "thank-you" to all of you for developing, maintaing and supporting this wonderful piece of software!

Having been a Thunderbird user for many years, I strongly got the impression that Thunderbird became buggier with every new version (in the end, it even completely crashed my big profile, and it took me ages to recover the stuff that was in there).

Looking for a rock-solid alternative, I came to Claws. One of the MX-16 Linux package builders thankworthily packaged the 3.15.0 code, and I am testing it now.

Now I am encountering some very strange behaviour which IMHO points to some major bug in the 3.15.0 version:

I deleted several e-mails from the Inbox. Later, I happened to check the "Sent" folder, and what I found there was double disturbing:

1) My would-be deleted e-mails from the "Inbox" now all of a sudden happened to be moved to "Sent".

2) Plus, which was even more disturbing: All information about the e-mail shown in Claws' e-mail overwiew was correct, but when clicking on each and every one of the "deleted" e-mails, Claws showed me e-mail text bodies from completely different e-mails that had nothing to do with these.

I didn't do anything unusual that would really explain this behaviour. The only "unusual" thing that had occured before was this: I had used a 3.13.0 installation before. As 3.15.0 had been unwilling to swallow my 3.13.0 ".claws-mail" profile, I had deleted it and had made Claws set up a new one.



Greetings, and thanks in advance for looking into this,

Joe
Comment 1 Paul 2017-06-23 14:46:23 UTC
Sounds like user error to me.

Is your 'Sent' folder really an 'outbox' folder? (Right-click the folder and choose Properties, on the General tab does it say 'Folder Type: Outbox'?)

Otherwise, check your account settings. See the 'Advanced' page. Have you specified 'Send' for the 'Put deleted messages in' option?
Comment 2 Paul 2017-06-23 21:22:40 UTC
since submitter is using a mailinator email, probably will never get a response.