Closed
Bug 125868
Opened 24 years ago
Closed 23 years ago
mail folders renamed with "," character become inaccessable and corrupt
Categories
(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
People
(Reporter: alex, Assigned: sspitzer)
Details
(Keywords: dataloss)
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.79 [en]C-CCK-MCD DT (Windows NT 5.0; U)
BuildID: 20020204
Whenever a mail folder is renamed and the new name contains a "," character,
Mozilla behaves very strange - sometimes the content of mail foders will even be
destroyed and inaccessably by the user (e.g. after renaming folders)!
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a new mail-folder "Test1" under "Inbox"
2. Create a new mail-folder "Test2" under "Test1"
3. Copy a mail into "Test2" (leave "Test1" empty)
4. Switch between "Inbox", "Test1" and "Test2" - all mail lists on the right are
updated correctly
5. Rename "Test1" to "Test1,Test"
6. Switch between "Inbox", "Test1,Test" and "Test2" - the mail list for
"Test1,Test" and "Test2" will never be updated again (the mail list content of
"Inbox" remains)
7. Restart Mozilla completely and return to the Mail module
8. The renamed folder "Test1,Test" will NOT contain a sub-folder "Test2" any
more. Instead, Mozilla will display all mail folders under "Inbox" (containing a
"," character) which had ever existed under "Inbox" and which had all been
deleted before!
9. Delete the folder "Test1,Test" -> it will be moved into "Trash"
10. Try to create a new folder "Test1,Test" under "Inbox" - Mozilla will
complain that the folder already exists, although it was just deleted before!
10. Restart Mozilla completely
11. Go to the Mail module, then into the "Trash" folder
12. The folder "Test1,Test" under "Trash" will contain the content of the
previously disappeared "Test2" in a folder whose name looks like a random
number!
Mozilla has huge problems with mail folders being renamed to a name containing
the "," character. Next to the reported problems, if you import Netscape 4.x
profiles with mail folder containing "," characters, Mozilla will destroy the
mail folder structure and insert un-accessable sub-folders with randmom-number
titles instead!
Actual Results: (see also above, "steps to reproduce")
1. The mail list of a mail folder whose name contains a "," character (and those
of its sub-folders) are not displayed/updated any more
2. Sub-folders of mail folders whose name contains a "," character are not
accessable any more after a Mozilla restart.
3. Deleted folders whose name contains a "," character somehow remain in their
original position (you cannot create a new folder with the same name after
Mozilla's restert; the deleted folders will also be disappeared from Trash).
4. When importing folders from Netscape 4.x profiles and inserting new mails
into sub-folders whose name contains a "," character, Mozilla will create
ghost-folders whose name is built from a random number.
Expected Results: Mozilla mustn't behave any different whether a mail folder
name contains the "," character or not! All folders as well as their mail
content must remain fully intact and accessable!
Blocks: folders-with-special-characters
No longer blocks: folders-with-special-characters
QA Contact: esther → sheelar
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Comment 2•23 years ago
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Alexander do you still get this problem with a current Mozilla
build ?
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Comment 4•23 years ago
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Duping to 41944 per comments 8 and 9 in that bug.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 41944 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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Updated•21 years ago
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Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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