24942 - Cannot create subfolders unless creating folders from the drop down menu of the "new folder" dialog

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect, P1)

Description

[Karen Huang]

Used Mac 2000-01-24-01-M13 commercial Netscape5 build:

Cannot create subfolders.

1) Login to mail
2) Tried to create folders up to 4 levels
3) Actual Results: Nothing happened, there were no folders created.

Expected Results: Should create the 4 levels folders and displayed on the 
folders' pane successfully.

I am using IMAP mail account.

Comment 1

[Phil Peterson]

Reassign to sspitzer for M14. Karen, all platforms, or just Mac?

Comment 2

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

did it succeed up to 3 folders deep?

Comment 3

[Karen Huang]

Sorry. I am in class yesterday.
Yes. This problem only occurred on Mac..even on 2000-01-26-03-M13 commercial 
build...adding [PP] on the summary:
It is strange that I can only create 2 levels' folders at the *FIRST* time...
And after the second time, I just cannot create the same level/1st level folder 
any more...even after I exit the application, I still cannot find the second 
time created folders.

P.S. Problem not occurred on WinNT & Linux 2000-01-25-20-M13 commercial builds

Comment 4

[Karen Huang]

Change QA contact to me, Cc: Lisa.
Addint pp on the keywords field instead of summary field.

Comment 5

[Karen Huang]

Release Notes for M13

Comment 6

[esther]

Update: This appears to be Mac only and narrowing in on it shows that if you try 
to create a New Folder and  don't access the pull-right list to select the 
folder while in the New Folder dialog the folder won't get created.  

In other words if you select a folder while in Folder pane, then Select 
New|Folder and just type in the name of the new folder (expecting the selection 
showing in the pull right list to be the target location), then click OK the 
folder does not get created.   

If you click on the pull-right list first, select a folder location, then type 
in your new folder name and OK the dialog the new folder get created. Doing it 
this way I could create 5 top level folders and 5 sub folders in the same 
session.  

Also note, once you've tried to create folders the bad way, you can't create any 
new folder in that same session.  Karen will try more scenarios to verify this 
is the case.

Comment 7

[Karen Huang]

Yes. Esther is right.
If I just highlight the specific folder from the folder pane, and than 
create/type the folder name right away without selecting from the drop down menu 
of the "new folder" dialog, problem will occure. 
Updating the summary to reflect that and it only occured 
on Mac.

Comment 8

[leger]

Putting on PDT+ radar for dogfood.

Comment 9

[Phil Peterson]

Nominate as beta1 stopper

Comment 10

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

accepting

Comment 11

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

eta 2-18

Comment 12

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

this looks like it is working for me on my mac.

I did this:

select imap server in folder pane
new | folder
type s1
hit ok
select s1 in folder pane
new | folder
type s2
hit ok
select s2 in folder pane
new | folder
type s3
hit ok

am I not doing the right thing?

Comment 13

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

marking worksforme.

I believe esther and karen that is didn't work at one point, but recent changes
seem to have fixed it.

Comment 14

[Karen Huang]

Yes. It is working now.....but I logged another bug#28445 for another problem 
and that is Mac only, too. Marking as verified for this bug!!