Open Bug 1651640 Opened 4 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Thunderbird doesn't allow me to restore Local Directory to default value

Categories

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
General
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: ossman, Unassigned)

References

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:77.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/77.0

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Move profile directory (bug 1651629)
  2. Start thunderbird
  3. Fix Local Directory manually by specifying the new path

Actual results:

"The Local Directory path "/home/ossman/.thunderbird/bhqt2cwy.default/ImapMail/imap.cendio.se/" is not suitable for message storage. Please choose another directory."

Expected results:

Account fixed. Thunderbird starts working normally.

I checked the code and this just looks broken. The profile directory is forbidden as a Local directory location via gDangerousLocalStorageDirs.

At some point perhaps ImapMail and friends were in the safeSubdirs array, but that is no longer the case.

I find it extremely odd that the default setting is considered invalid when set manually.

We've seen a couple reports of reports from fedora users

See Also: → 1651629
Component: Untriaged → General
See Also: → 1412609

The ImapMail subfolder of your profile definitely is allowed as a folder to store the mail data (Local Directory). There must be something else at play here.
Is that server in the account you try to change actually IMAP type (inside the Thunderbird server settings)?

Yes. The settings state: "Server Type: IMAP Main Server".

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