[imp] Undisplayed messages deleted - quick release of IMP 4.3.4 or patches?

Michael M Slusarz slusarz at horde.org
Wed Mar 18 21:10:23 UTC 2009


Quoting John Murtari <jmurtari at thebook.com>:

> Folks (Mike),
>
>      We were seeing the following with IMP 4.3.3:
>
>>         The problem we are seeing is this.  Starting with an empty
>> cache, simple POP, no IMAP.  Login and check your INBOX.  You can
>> read through all the messages fine.   Delete one of the messages,
>> from then on any later message seems off-by-one, i.e. I see the
>> correct subject as shown in the IMP summary display, but if I click
>> to read the message, the body looks to be from the next message?
>
>      Mike Slusarz confirmed this was a known issue and a ticket/fix
> was in for 4.3.4:  http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/8035
>
>      We just got a more severe error report that is also a side
> effect of this, but the result is many unread messages can be deleted.
> This would seem pretty severe and I hope a quick release of fixes
> can be made.   The scenario is:
>
>      Assume a display setting of 10 messages, and 25 new message
> in the INBOX.  The user sees the first 10, they are all SPAM,
> chooses 'select' all and deletes them.  The screen then shows the
> next 10 (but if you do a mouseover the links, you will see the
> index count is off by 10). The total msg count is 15.  These 10
> are also SPAM, he does a  'select all' and delete.
>
>      Instead of deleting those 10, IMP actually attempts to delete
> messages 10-20 in the mailbox (which ends up deleting the last 5).
> When the screen refreshes, the user still sees the 10 SPAM messages
> and wonders what happened?  The total message count drops from 15
> to 10 -- which confuses the user, and their email is gone.

I don't see this.

michael

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