1431307 - New folder starting with Com not showing

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 817681

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Jonathan]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3239.132 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

The following bug was replicated on multiple different imap accounts including gmail account and generic imap account with my own email hosting provider.

Create a new folder/sub folder in the inbox starting with "com" (optionally followed by a number) such as com, com1, com2 etc.

The bug prevents the folder from showing in the folder pane.

Tested by creating a new folder both from within thunderbird and online webmail client (gmail.com and hosting provider's client for other account).

Suspected reason: Folders seems to be reading as a top level domain name instead of a subfolder. E.g. inbox.com instead of inbox/com, or simply .com instead of /com.

Folder is actually created and shows up on other email clients (even when created from within thunderbird). Folder shows up in "Subscribe" but not the folder pane.

Tried the usual to no success:
Acount Settings > Server Settings > Advanced > disable "Show only subscribed folder"
Right click account > Subscribe > Refresh and ensure subscribed to the folder
Enabling "offline" mode, closing down thunderbird and restarting.



Actual results:

The folder pane should show folders starting with "com"


Expected results:

The folder pane does not show folders starting with "com"

Comment 1

[Jonathan]

The folder also isn't created in the local directory

Comment 2

[Masatoshi Kimura [:emk]]

(In reply to Jonathan from comment #0)
> Create a new folder/sub folder in the inbox starting with "com" (optionally
> followed by a number) such as com, com1, com2 etc.

It is reserved for serial port devices and unusable as a regular file on Windows.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

dup of bug 817681?

Comment 4

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #3)
> dup of bug 817681?

According to description, yes. I tested and comment 2 is right that you can't have any of com1, com2, etc., con or aux as file or folder names on Windows because they are reserved as device names ("com" is ok though). Windows will display an error message when trying to create them, so TB should do the same.