141437 - mail appears not to be sent when sending from a mailto link

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 90064

(MailNews Core :: Networking: IMAP, defect)

Description

[Jon Westgate]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0+) Gecko/20020429
BuildID:    20020429 

If I click on a mailto link all seems well until I try to send the email when I
get an error message saying something like already subscribed to that folder.
mail not sent. Infact it has sent the email to its recipiant and just not been
able to send to my sent_mail folder. This only seems to happen the first time
you click the mailto link, if you click it again you can send the mail. The
problem is that the recipiant then gets 2 emails and you only have one copy in
your sent_mail box.

(This only seems to affect users who are using imap and have a sent_mail folder
stored remotely on the imap server rather than localy).

It does not matter if you have another mail window open.
what is strange is that if you do copy email address, manualy open a compose
window from mailnews and paste the address it works fine. So I guess it must be
something to do with the browser spawning a compose window as apposed to
mailnews doing it 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.setup an imap account and set sent mail to go to a folder on that account
(this could be a problem as there is another bug that stops you from doing this,
the sent mail destination folder seems to be ignored) I used a config that I
created using 0.97
2.find a website and click on a mailto link the compose new email window should open
3.write your email and click send
4.watch for the error message

Actual Results:  I got an error message saying something about already
subscribed to folder sent_mail

Expected Results:  It should have sent the email and sent a copy to the imap
folder sent_mail

Comment 1

[grylchan]

works for me following reporters step to reproduce w/imap mail account.
I clicked on a mailto web page link and it successfully sent/copied
to online sent folder. Used a old profile.

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Comment 2

[Jon Westgate]

I forget to mention the sent_mail folder I use is a subfolder, I dont know if
that makes any difference

Comment 3

[Jon Westgate]

I have managed to get this to appear on all 5 of my linux boxes there is a
screen shot of the error message here http://akira.fsck.tv/imap.jpg 
I wondered if it could be my email server, but then why would it work perfectly
if the composer window was launched from mailnews?
the imap server is the debian packaged one that installs by default when you
install imp (webmail system writen in php)

imp by default stores all its imap folders as subfolders of the folder mail. The
mail folder contains only subfolders and is not subscribed to its self.

here is my folder layout.

mail/
     archives
     sent_mail
     drafts
     templates

there are more folders, but these are the important ones, I can create you an
account on my server if required.

Comment 4

[Scott MacGregor]

what kind of imap server are you using? If you don't know, the easiest way is to: 
1) telnet to the imap server:
telnet <server name> 143
(don't forget the 143)

You should see a like that says OK <server name> followed by the imap server
version.

Comment 5

[Jon Westgate]

ok its version v12.264 if that means anything to you telnet transcript follows:
-----------------------------------
telnet geevor.mine.nu 143
Trying 62.190.57.60...
Connected to 62.190.57.60.
Escape character is '^]'.
* OK geevor.mine.nu IMAP4rev1 v12.264 server ready
* BYE Autologout; idle for too long
Connection closed by foreign host.
-----------------------------------

If it is the imap servers fault how does the imap server know the difference
between clicking on a web link and pasting into a composer window opened from
the browser, hmm I wonder if my imap server expects to have its headers from its
 folders read first. If so why does it complain I'm already subscribed ??

Comment 6

[Andy Lyttle]

Quite annoying, and a dupe of bug 90064.

Comment 7

[Sven Krohlas]

Marking as a duplicate of 90064 due to the last comment.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 90064 ***