Closed Bug 1199636 Opened 9 years ago Closed 9 years ago

can't select maildir option for new accounts - select menu is greyed out and preset to one large file/mbox

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

38 Branch
defect
Not set
major

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1193958

People

(Reporter: r.stuart.ritchie, Unassigned)

References

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Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/44.0.2403.157 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Reproducible (on my system).
Install Thunderbird 38.2.0 (upgrading from previous much older (10.0.2) installation)
Go to Menu | Options | Options  screen, Advanced tab, General subtab



Actual results:

Text "Message Store Type for new accounts" has un-selectable (grayed-out) select menu against it with default entry "One large file (Mbox)"



Expected results:

TB "should have" permitted choice between maildir and mbox

(This was why I upgraded in the first place! Once I have this I can "manually" move all my 17Gb of archived emails into a new maildir account, then move them back once I've deleted and recreated the original account... on my google searches this seems to be the only way to convert mbox to maildir?)

Does not seem precisely to fit any of "triage" options, sorry.
Severity: normal → major
Windows 8.1 on x64 machine
This is expected and intentional, because major problems were found.
It will be re-enabled when it's in better shape.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Thank you Wayne
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