[imp] interesting folder problem w/ imp 3.1.

[Liam Hoekenga]

Ok, this is kinda long, and I've not been able to replicate it, but I
thought I'd pass it along in case anyone else has seen similar behavior.
One of our helpdesk workers reported that when she'd saved a draft
message, IMP created the drafts folder (as it should if she didn't have
one), but the copied all of the mail from the folder preceding it
alphabetically into the drafts folder.

It sounds kind of weird, but considering some of the other folder problems
people have reported, I thought I'd ask.

Anyone else see this?  See the attached message trail if you're
interested.

Liam
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To:      webmaster@umich.edu
From:    someone at the umich helpdesk..
Date:    Tue, 02 Jul 2002 16:50:01 -0400
Subject: Re: Webmaster Feedback Form email
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You know, it's possible that it happens occasionally but it would only be
discovered if you happened to open that Drafts folder.  I was curious about
what it contained because I hadn't noticed that folder and didn't think I
had created it.  That's the only reason I saw what had happened.

Of course, later in the day, when I ran through a similar scenario it
didn't happen.  So I don't think it's a consistent event.  But, for the
record, the creation of the Drafts folder seemed to include copies of the
contents of the IMAP folder directly above it (in alphabetical order).

Margarete

--On Tuesday, July 2, 2002 16:01 -0400 webmaster@umich.edu wrote:

> Yours is the only report of a problem like this we've seen.  Now that
> doesn't mean it might not be happening to other people, but if it is,
> they're not reporting it.  Let us know if you or your comrades get
> reports of this problem, and we'll investigate it further.
>
> ---------------------------------------------
>   Liam Hoekenga
>  University of Michigan Webmaster Team
>
> On Tue, 02 Jul 2002 15:54:19 -0400, you  wrote:
>> Liam,
>>
>> I took care of the problem later that day.  It turned out that when I
>> checked email, using both Mulberry and Pine (NOT simultaneously), the
>> identical problem was there:  the contents of my DiscoverCard folder had
>> been copied to the newly created Drafts folder that was a result of
>> creating a draft in mail.umich.  I went into pine and removed the drafts
>> folder.  Then I went back into mail.umich and tried creating a draft
>> again,  which--of course--created another drafts folder.  This time, the
>> contents  of the DiscoverCard folder were not transferred into the
>> Drafts folder.  It  still makes me nervous that contents of folders seem
>> to be moved around.
>>
>> Margarete
>>
>> --On Tuesday, July 2, 2002 13:07 -0400 webmaster@umich.edu wrote:
>>
>> > Mail.umich.edu doesn't keep state re: the contents of your mailbox.
>> > It's an IMAP client, and only knows what the IMAP server tells it
>> > about your mailboxes and messages.
>> >
>> > It's possible that the application could have misbehaved, but if you're
>> > not seeing the problem in the other mail applications, I wouldn't worry
>> > about it.  If you are seeing the problem in other mail applications,
>> > you should talk to the IMAP team.
>> >
>> > Are you still seeing the problem?
>> >
>> > ---------------------------------------------
>> >   Liam Hoekenga
>> >   University of Michigan Webmaster Team
>> >
>> > On Tue, 25 Jun 2002 12:27:24 -0400 (EDT), you  wrote:
>> >> Today I was helping a customer with using mail.umich.edu and I noticed
>> >> that t he contents of my drafts folder and another folder had merged
>> >> in the web base d interface.