244591 - (Mozilla_Hang) Changed "Local Folders" to F:\Users\bdg\... in Mail/News profile, Mozilla now Hangs when starting Mail.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect)

Description

[Brian Gubser]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8a1) Gecko/20040520
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8a1) Gecko/20040520

I copied the folders from the default C:\Windows\App...Data\... to my F:\Users\Bdg
folders using same structure, etc. This had worked before with earlier Mozilla
(1.2?). Now after starting Mozilla in browser mode, Mozilla hangs trying to
start Mail client.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Mozilla in browser.
2. Using Cntl-2 to start Mail.
3. Mail client does NOT start up (no new "Mail" window).

Actual Results:  
Mozilla Hangs....

Expected Results:  
New Mail window should appear.

Comment 1

[Brian Gubser]

By replacing prefs.js in original default location
(C:\Windows\App...Data\Mozilla\Profiles\....) Mail now works.

Comment 2

[Brian Gubser]

Following are lines from prefs.js:

Causes "Hang"
user_pref("mail.server.server1.directory", F:\\Users\\bdg\\Mail\\mail.comcast.net");
user_pref("mail.server.server1.directory-rel",
"[ProfD]../../../../../../../F:/Users/bdg/Mail/mail.comcast.net")

Original (working version):
user_pref("mail.server.server1.directory", "C:\\WINDOWS\\Application
Data\\Mozilla\\Profiles\\BDG-1\\pd2lei7h.slt\\Mail\\mail.attbi.com");
user_pref("mail.server.server1.directory-rel", "[ProfD]Mail/mail.attbi.com")

Comment 3

[OstGote!]

Could it be related to bug 241708 comment 17? So it should now work with a newer
build.

Comment 4

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

Sounds like Bug 242579 & Bug 242970.

>Bug 242579
> Multiple mail copy/move hangs when drive of mail directry is different from
one for profile directry (bug 242970 also occurs).
> This causes hang of Junk move/Junk purge and multiple mail delete.

>Bug 242970
> Bug 241708 has broken Mail&News when mail directry on different drive from one
for profile directry.
> (Server Settings/Local directory was changed to \\.\D:\pop3.server.name after
2004-04-29 build)

If same problem, try trunk builds after 2004-05-21.
As ostgote says, patch for these bugs(bug 241708 Comment #14) was unfortunately
not landed on 1.8a1 release build(2004-05-20 build).

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