141325 - Displaying mail folders when having no write permission

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Alex Gontmakher]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0rc1)
Gecko/20020417
BuildID:    2002041711

If I put my mail folders on drive where I have no write permission, Mozilla
displays only the top-level folders, and they're empty. It probably happens
because it cannot rebuild summary files.

I did this for sharing mail folders between Windows and Linux, and erroneously
had no write permission on the FAT disk.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Put folder files on a place without write permission.
2. Configure Mozilla Mail to look for the folders there.
3. Sit back and enjoy.

Expected Results:  I would expect it to at least give back some diagnostics on
missing permissions (and probably even to display all the folders!).

I can think of other scenarios of when I would like to read mail folders on a
write-protected drive: for instance, storing them on CD-ROM.

Comment 1

[Jason M. Abels]

That's fine, but you can't. The index files must be built. You can always import
or copy the files from the CD-rom, but you can't read from them.