112880 - IMAP sent-mail preferences cannot be set - stay at default

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 27002

(MailNews Core :: Networking: IMAP, defect)

Description

[Brad Jones]

When selecting an "other" folder to save copies of sent mail to on an IMAP
account, those preferences do not get used; rather, Mozilla uses the "Sent"
folder on the IMAP account.  This preference does not get saved -- when going
back into preferences to check the sent mail folder settings, Mail will always
show its default option, the "Sent" folder on the current account.

Using Mozilla 0.9.6.

Comment 1

[eberry]

*** Bug 112961 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Alexander Skwar]

This also happens with the Drafts and Templates folders.  Setting it to some
"Other" folder doesn't work - going back to the prefs shows that the folder is
still set to the Default folder.

With build 20011116 (about shows 0.9.5+) on Linux, this works.

Comment 3

[Bron Gondwana]

A workaround is to change the prefs.js file directly, for example I changed:

user_pref("mail.identity.id1.draft_folder", "imap://[e-mail]/Drafts");
user_pref("mail.identity.id1.drafts_folder_picker_mode", "0");
user_pref("mail.identity.id1.fcc_folder", "imap://[e-mail]/Sent");
user_pref("mail.identity.id1.fcc_folder_picker_mode", "0");

TO:

user_pref("mail.identity.id1.draft_folder", "imap://[e-mail]/INBOX/Drafts");
user_pref("mail.identity.id1.drafts_folder_picker_mode", "1");
user_pref("mail.identity.id1.fcc_folder", "imap://[e-mail]/INBOX/Sent");
user_pref("mail.identity.id1.fcc_folder_picker_mode", "1");


Note that I'm using Courier as the IMAP server, where all mailboxes are stored
inside 'INBOX.' (== ~/Maildir/).

Comment 4

[Kurt Huwig]

Same happens with Cyrus IMAP

Comment 5

[Alexander Skwar]

Using build 2001120504 on Win2k now.  It's still broken.  The IMAP server is
running uw-imap.

Comment 6

[Alexander Skwar]

Using build 2001120509 (gcc30) on Linux now.  Saving folders just became impossible!

Suggested OS change: All.

Comment 7

[Marko Macek]

same here with 0.9.6 on W2k

Comment 8

[Alexander Skwar]

With recent nightlies, this works for me on Linux and on Windows 2000.  

Comment 9

[scottputterman]

marking WFM based on Alexander's comments.

Comment 10

[Karen Huang]

No. This is not WFM bug.
This problem is still existing and it's dup of Cyrus bug 27002.....

Comment 11

[Karen Huang]

resolved as dup of bug 27002

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 27002 ***

Comment 12

[Karen Huang]

Verified as dup.