2001031213 trunk for MacOS Mail empties trash of the default POP account even though emipty on exit is not tuned on in the preferences. This is Dataloss bug.

By turning on and then turning off, Mozilla rebuilt the Trash folder in the next launch. Therefore, this seems to be caused by the initial value settings?

I'v seen this on my IMAP account too. It's really really bad. I lost around 2000+ mails. Now Mozilla is banned from that account!

Henrik, are you seeing this on another platform besides the Mac? tarahim, is this happening to you consistently and did it just start happening with the 3/12 build? Sheela, can you reproduce this?

I do not know if it happened in previous builds. I can not recall when this UI was activated. May be it is been sitting there harmlessly. The last build I used was 0309 and did not show this problem. As to the reproducibility, I have to delete the pref.js to see if it happens again. Until I opened Preferences UI, turned it On, closed Preferences, and then opened and turned it Off, Mozilla was consistently emptying Trash on Exit.

I used build 2001-03-12-11 on fenella's mac machine. I was not able to reporduce this bug on both imap and pop account. I created a new profile with pop as default account and my second account was an imap account. When I created the new profile I see that 'empty trash on exit' in accounts/settings is not checked by default. Checked preference, delete few messages, and quit the application -resulted in emptying the trash as it should unchecked prefernce, delete few messages, and quit the application- resulted in not emptying the trash. Checked and unchecked the preference and it behaves as it is supposed to. This work4me on the above build. Reporter, If you have steps to reproduce this please update in the steps in the bug. For now works4me

You did not follow the steps described originally. You must not touch the "Empty on Exit" check box after the first launch with a fresh profile. Next you delete some messages from Inbox or whatever mailbox. Quit. Launch Mail again. Now the previously deleted messages are nowhere to be found in Trash box. Strangely, Trash file is rebuilt at every launch in the current build. If you check the Empty on Exit, this behavior disappears even after you uncheck it again. Still reproducible in 031408 build.

Strange. Now 0314008 build successfully rebuilds the summary file for Trash at every launch, and some of the previously deleted messages appear in the Trash marked as Unread. Maybe the behavior has somewhat changed in this build?

It is back in 031608 build. I have not touched the preference for Empty Trash on Exit since I started with a new profile. In 031608 build, Mozilla consistently empties Trash for the default POP account.

This is consistently happening in 040309 mac trunk build.

Are you still seeing this in current builds? reassigning to naving

I am not able to reproduce this on Mac G4 9.0.4 builid: 2001052112 I followed the steps by the reporter on 2001-03-14 21:01 and was not able to reproduce this problem. worksforme.Reporter can you try this on recent builds?

WFM in 2001052308 trunk confirmed.

verifiying now that reporter is also not seeing this problem. Reporter, thanks for quick response.