archiving by moving mail to local folder fails to store messages but still deletes messages from server

Bug #348134 reported by dananarama
4
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thunderbird (Ubuntu)
Expired
Undecided
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: thunderbird

From here: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Archiving_your_e-mail I read about using Thunderbird to archive email directly by using a search.

I attempted to implement this by moving all messages from before 1/1/2007 to a local folder. This was a total of 4,600 messages representing ~ 200MB.

The operation took some time, and when it was completed, all messages had been removed from my inbox, but only about a quarter of the messages were stored in my local folder. It appears that the remaining messages are empty headers like this:

From - Tue Mar 24 13:49:42 2009
X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000

I am using Thunderbird version 2.0.0.21 (20090318) from package

mozilla-thunderbird
version 2.0.0.21+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1(hardy-updates)

This program just irretrievably destroyed over two years' worth of email for me. I should hope this receives a high priority.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Mar 24 15:26:51 2009
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: mozilla-thunderbird None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/mozilla-thunderbird.list]
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/opt/cupsddk/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/bin/exp:/usr/bin/exp/sage
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: thunderbird
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-23-generic i686

Tags: apport-bug
Kees Cook (kees)
visibility: private → public
Changed in thunderbird (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → asac
status: New → Incomplete
Revision history for this message
Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) wrote :

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

security vulnerability: yes → no
Alexander Sack (asac)
Changed in thunderbird (Ubuntu):
assignee: Alexander Sack (asac) → Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)
Martin Pitt (pitti)
Changed in thunderbird (Ubuntu):
assignee: Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) → nobody
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for thunderbird (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in thunderbird (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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