[Bug 132350] Re: Mozilla-thunderbird does not save drafts

[Bob Kline]

I was tempted to create a new bug report, as this one does not exactly
match the behavior I've observed with Thunderbird (which does save
drafts -- just not all the time).  Nor is 190877 the same (the reporter
for that issue was trying to override default draft-saving behavior for
multiple accounts, and I'm not trying to do that).  Nevertheless, those
two issues are close enough that I strongly suspect an attempt to create
a new bug report would be marked as a duplicate of one of these, so I'll
start off by adding my observations, and if encouraged to do so, will
create a separate issue.

Generally, saving a draft in Thunderbird does work for me, but
occasionally TB will lose a draft, usually (always?) right after
bringing up the draft, editing it, saving it, and closing the window for
the draft.  Happened again this morning.  I had a message which had been
sitting in the Drafts folder for at least a couple of weeks.  I brought
it up with a double-click, added a subject line, and then selected Save
from the File menu.  At this point I was asked for the password for
another IMAP account than the one in whose Drafts folder this message
lived.  I assumed that it was just a coincidence that TB had decided to
check for new messages for that account, but given what happened
subsequently, I'm not so sure that assumption was correct.  Since I
didn't want the draft to be moved to the Drafts folder for the other
account, in case my assumption wasn't right (why would TB want to do
that?) I clicked Cancel to the password request.  Then I closed the
window for the draft message which I thought I had just saved.  But then
I noticed that the message was no longer in the drafts folder.
Fortunately I take nightly backups of all my systems, but TB should not
just throw away a message.  I used to write email gateway software, and
at the very top of the "no-no" list is throwing away a piece of mail
silently.  I would regard this is as a critical bug.

Package: thunderbird
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: mail
Installed-Size: 32024
Maintainer: Alexander Sack <asac at ubuntu.com>
Architecture: i386
Version: 2.0.0.14+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1

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Mozilla-thunderbird does not save drafts
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