Closed Bug 14081 Opened 25 years ago Closed 25 years ago

Assertion failure when you open an IMAP MSF file which doesn't exist

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Database, defect, P3)

Product:
MailNews Core
Component:
Database
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED FIXED

People

(Reporter: phil, Assigned: Bienvenu)

Details

When you launch 5.0 for the first time and get mail, you get an assertion
failure since we don't have a summary file for the inbox. Seems like this ought
to be a legal and non-surprising thing, at some level.
POP or IMAP?
I've seen it on IMAP. Can't speak for POP.
This bug was filed on pop in particular. But it also happens for imap.

If (without having any summary files), you select the server (and not the
folder) and then hit get new mail, we asssert because we try to open the db and
we have no summary file.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: M11
I think we really need to create an inbox folder if one doesn't exist at
startup, at least for imap, for reasons other than this bug. I'm going to go see
exactly how 4.5 does this.
But David, I think this bug is just as much because we don't have a .msf file as
it is because we don't have a folder. So that won't fix the problem will it?

People seeing this bug can see it after they just migrated a profile for pop. So
your inbox is there. But you hit get new mail before loading the inbox and
building a .msf and you assert.

Although I agree for imap, we should create the folder right away. I just wonder
if that will fix all our problems.
Yes, but I would create an msf file when I created the folder :-)
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Summary: Assertion failure when you open an MSF file which doesn't exist → Assertion failure when you open an IMAP MSF file which doesn't exist
fixed by always creating imap inbox.
David does this fix pop too? That's where this bug originally came from....
No, it only fixes IMAP. Phil filed it on IMAP. I thought you meant there was a
separate bug filed on POP. I changed the summary to reflect the IMAP nature of
what I fixed...
QA Contact: lchiang → huang
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Passed by retest on the 10-08-12-M11 commercial build on all the Win98, WinNT,
Mac and Linux platforms for the IMAP account:

There is no assertion failure anymore even there's no summary file for the
inbox.
Product: MailNews → Core
Product: Core → MailNews Core
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