107223 - copying message to sent folder : invalid mailbox name

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Networking: IMAP, defect)

Description

[robart]

After sent a message, mozilla try to copy it on the sent folder. the copy fail
with a alert message "invalid mailbox name" and the windows "copying message to
sent folder" never end.

Comment 1

[robart]

more infos...

this append when i let in menu "Copy and Folders setting" the option "Sent
"folder" on".
my imap server is courier-imap. the namespace response has prefix "INBOX.".
when mozila try to append sent message in sent folder, should not add the prefix
from namespace response ?
APPEND "INBOX.Sent"  instead of APPEND "Sent" 

  

Comment 2

[Mark Belanger]

I can confirm this bug.  It's existed in every version of Mozilla that's supported 

Comment 3

[Mark Belanger]

Sorry.  No idea how I managed to commit that...

The bug is 100% reproducible if connecting to a Courier IMAP server, because of
the NAMESPACE issue that's been described in the numerous other Mozilla-Courier
bugs.  The workaround I discovered seems to confirm that it's related to the
NAMESPACE issue and the fact that Courier doesn't allow the user to put any mail
folders directly under the top-level and instead puts them below INBOX.

The workaround is to insert 'INBOX.' in between the slash and 'Sent', like so:

 user_pref("mail.identity.id1.fcc_folder",
"imap://[e-mail]/INBOX.Sent");

It should be noted that this problem also effects the Drafts and Templates
folders as well.

Comment 4

[Barry Pederson]

I see a similar problem with a Cyrus IMAP server, my sent folder is named
"INBOX.Sent" so I changed the prefs.js from:

 user_pref("mail.identity.id1.fcc_folder", "imap://[e-mail]/Sent");

to:

 user_pref("mail.identity.id1.fcc_folder", "imap://[e-mail]/INBOX/Sent");

to get it to work. Although when it fails with Cyrus, I don't get an "invalid
mailbox name" error, but more of an "access-denied" type of error (I suppose on
a Cyrus server it is possible to have a "Sent" folder outside the user space,
but I happen not to in my case).

Comment 5

[Peter Bartecki]

Exactly the same situation: 
I've got Courier-Imap 1.4 (previously 1.3.12) and Mozilla 0.9.5-now does not set
the path to Sent, Drafts and Templates folders properly (missing INBOX part)
when run with default settings under "Copies & Folders" category in mail server
preferences.

 In build 20011215 i was able to choose proper folder using "Other" radio button
and then picking up apriopriate folders from menu - folders' names have INBOX/
in path and everything works fine.

 PS. OS does not affect this behavior - Linux, Win ME and Win 2000 Mozilla
versions have the same problem.

Comment 6

[Anders Åge Larsen]

Since this bug was reported, a newer version of Mozilla (1.0 RC1) has been
released. Reporter, please can you check to see whether this bug is still 
present in a recent build (Moz1-RC1 or a new nightly build). If
this bug does not occur please can you resolve the bugreport?

Comment 7

[robart]

tested with build 20020421, bug is still here. 

Comment 8

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

There are two people which confirmed it -> NEW

pi

Comment 9

[Peter Bartecki]

This bug is not system specyfic as I am able to reproduce it on Linux, Win98 and
WinMe using Mozilla 1.0 RC3, Build ID: 2002052306.

Comment 10

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Marking NEW by previous comment.

pi

Comment 11

[Ashley Bischoff (blog at handcoding.com)]

Confirming with 2002080704 on Win2k. 

Comment 12

[Ashley Bischoff (blog at handcoding.com)]

Hmm. I seem to have worked around this one.

Here's my old pref:
user_pref("mail.identity.id1.fcc_folder",
"imap://[e-mail]/INBOX/sent-mail");

And, I changed it to this:
user_pref("mail.identity.id1.fcc_folder",
"imap://[e-mail]/sent-mail");

I running with a fresh profile (as of yesterday) with 2002080704 Trunk on Win2k.
Err, isn't the latter pref supposed to be the default in the first place? Is
this a sign of new brokenness, perhaps?

Comment 13

[kmike]

I stumbled upon this bug after updating to 2002080718 build.
In previous build (20020716) copying to Sent folder worked fine.
And yes, workaround helped. Must be result of some recent "bug fixing".

Comment 14

[robart]

i confirm. With build (2002081822) and a new profile, it work perfectly with
courier-imap server.

Comment 15

[Ashley Bischoff (blog at handcoding.com)]

robart: Since no actual code was applied, WFM would be more appropriate :). 

Reopening, and marking as such.

Comment 16

[Ashley Bischoff (blog at handcoding.com)]

... and WFM.

Comment 17

[Karen Huang]

Marking as verified based on the reporter's (robart) comment#14 verification.