127458 - renaming mail account loses existing content

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect)

Description

[David E.B. Smith]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204
BuildID:    2002020406

Renaming a mail account creates a new account with empty folders and loses track
of the existing messages and subfolders. 

Reproducible: Didn't try
Steps to Reproduce:
Mozilla was installed on system that had old Netscape 6.0 beta software
installed and removed. So Mozilla uses \Program
Files\Netscape\users50\default\xxxxxxx.slt\Mail\pop.compuserve.com as mail
directory. 

In Account Settings window mail Account Name is changed for above account. All
existing messages and subfolders disappear. The mail files still exist in the
Netscape... mail directory. However, Mozilla has created a new mail directory 
\Program Files\mozilla.org\Mozilla\mail.server.server3.realhostname with new
mail files in it.


Actual Results:  All old existing contents of mail account are apparently lost. 

Expected Results:  Should have maintained all contents of existing account and
simply changed the name.

Comment 1

[David E.B. Smith]

It appears that the old content can be recovered by copying all the files from
the old mail directory to the new mail directory (after exiting Mozilla). But
that's a workaround, not a fix.

Comment 2

[Aarne Männik]

Reporter, can you please confirm this behaviour with the latest 1.0RC2 or a
recent nightly build. Renaming a mail account seems to work fine with RC2 on
Win98 although I did not have previous Netscape installation.

Comment 3

[Bill Mason]

Resolving as we did not hear back from reporter.

Comment 4

[Ninoschka Baca]

Branch build 2002-07-16: WinMe, Linux RH 7.1, Mac 10.1.3
Verified Worksforme.