Thunderbird offline extension should use spam message download to get messages
Bug #32625 reported by
Mark Shuttleworth
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Bug Description
When Thunderbird is doing junk mail detection, it seems to download the
contents of mail messages to establish whether or not they are junk. To
the extent that the inbox is configured for use offline, it would be
useful for Thunderbird then to remember that it has downloaded the
message already, and not have to fetch it again later when going
offline. I'm not sure if the junk mail download includes the download of
attachments. If not, then obviously those messages with attachments will
still need a separate download when going offline. I'm willing to pay a
$50 paypal bounty for this feature.
affects /products/
affects /distros/
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| Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl) wrote Re: Thunderbird offline extension should use spam message download to get messages | #2 |
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| status: | Unconfirmed → Needs Info |
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| Wouter Stomp (wouterstomp-deactivatedaccount) wrote | #5 |
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| Wouter Stomp (wouterstomp-deactivatedaccount) wrote | #6 |
| Changed in mozilla-thunderbird: | |
| status: | Incomplete → Confirmed |
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| importance: | Unknown → Medium |
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| status: | New → Invalid |
| affects: | mozilla-thunderbird (Ubuntu) → thunderbird (Ubuntu) |
| Changed in thunderbird (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Confirmed → Invalid |
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It seems to me that the junk mail filter downloads the body of new messages to see if they might be junk. I have my Inbox set to be available offline (using the offline extension). When I go offline, the offline extension goes and downloads all mails again. If the junk mail filtering has already downloaded the mail, it would be good for the offline extension to store the messages for offline use when they are downloaded during junk mail processing.
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install offline extension, make Inbox available for offline use, and activate the junk mail filter.
2. Check for new messages. The junk mail filter will quietly download the messages in the background, and mark the spam as spam.
3. Go offline.
Actual Results:
The offline extension will download the same messages AGAIN, for use offline.
Expected Results:
When the junk mail filter downloads the messages, they should be stored by the offline extension, so that they do not need to be downloaded again. This applies only to messages where the junk mail filter actually does download the whole thing.
I have a $50 paypal bounty on this. The bug is also registered in Launchpad at https:/