Open Bug 1664169 Opened 4 years ago Updated 2 years ago

When Windows search is deactivated, TB still created .mozmsgs folders, using File per folder (mbox)

Categories

(Thunderbird :: OS Integration, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
OS Integration
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: cito, Unassigned)

References

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:80.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/80.0

Steps to reproduce:

  • In the general settings, I deactivated "Allow Windows Search to search messages" .
  • Closed TB and deleted all .mozmsgs folders.
  • Opened TB again and received some new messages.

Actual results:

  • .mozmsgs folders (e.g. INBOX.mozmsgs and Junk.mozmsgs) were newly created, and .wdseml files with copies of the new incoming messages stored in them.

Expected results:

  • I expected that .mozmsgs folders and .wdseml are not created any more, since they are only used for Windows search integration which I have deactivated in TB.

Can someone else confirm?

in account settings > server settings > message store type
what is specified there?

Flags: needinfo?(cito)
Whiteboard: [closeme 2020-11-25]

It says "File per folder (mbox)" but it's greyed out, in all of my accounts.

Flags: needinfo?(cito)

(In reply to Christoph Zwerschke from comment #3)

It says "File per folder (mbox)" but it's greyed out, in all of my accounts.

What TB version around running now?

78.4.3

Summary: When Windows search is deactivated, TB still created .mozmsgs folders → When Windows search is deactivated, TB still created .mozmsgs folders, using File per folder (mbox)
Whiteboard: [closeme 2020-11-25]

I can confirm this on versio 102.0.3 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.0.3) on Windows_NT 10.0 19044

Windows search is disabled. All acounts use mbox and it is greyed out.

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