104344 - "Unsent messages" folder is not special for an IMAP account

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Backend, enhancement)

Description

[Henrik Gemal]

On my MS Exchange server the "unsent messages" folder is marked as a "special"
folder with Netscape 4.x but not with Mozilla. In Mozilla the "unsent messages"
folder is just another folder.

By special I mean a different folder icon and places above the Drafts folder.

build 20011010

Comment 1

[Håkan Waara]

The "Unsent Messages" folder does use a different icon, and is placed above the
"Drafts" folder.   Worksforme.

Comment 2

[Henrik Gemal]

I'm using a MS Exchange server and the Unsent Messages folder is shown just like
a normal folder....:(

build 20011014

Comment 3

[scottputterman]

We currently only recognize the Unsent Messages folder in Local Folders.  So if
you are looking at your IMAP account, it won't be special.

Comment 4

[Henrik Gemal]

So is it a bug that the Unsent folder isn't special in the IMAP account?

Comment 5

[OstGote!]

Is this still a problem with current builds for IMAP accounts?

Comment 6

[Roland Stuehmer]

Yes, this still happens.

Using:
- Cyrus IMAP server with all maiboxes under INBOX.*
- new mailbox "INBOX.Unsent Messages"
- collapsing and uncollapsing folders
- restarting thunderbird
- user_pref("mail.server.server3.using_subscription", false);
- user_pref("mail.server.server3.namespace.other_users", "\"user.\"");
- user_pref("mail.server.server3.namespace.personal", "\"INBOX.\"");
- user_pref("mail.server.server3.namespace.public", "\"\"");

Results:
no special icon appears, no localisation of "Unsent Messages" and folder not
sorted at top of folder list

Personal thoughts: An outbox should really be a (hidden) pref per account just
like the junk folder. No more hardcoded use of Local Folders for the outbox.

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Magnus, aren't all unsent messages filed in "local"?  I.e. there is no concept of an unsent imap folder in mozilla world?  The next question is, should or does there need to be?

Comment 8

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

(In reply to comment #7)
> Magnus, aren't all unsent messages filed in "local"?  I.e. there is no concept
> of an unsent imap folder in mozilla world?  

Yes, that sounds correct to me.

Comment 9

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

Comment #8 seems to imply WONTFIX or INVALID but I'm not sure.

Comment 10

[David :Bienvenu]

there's been talk of having an unsent messages folders for your imap account; whether that would just be a local folder within the imap server, or a saved search over your local folders unsent messages folder, or what, we're not sure.