179463 - Can't see/open subfolders beneath outer folder level of SSL accessed IMAP account

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Christian Mondrup]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

When accessing an IMAP account (my global email archive) on a remote linux
station SSL accessed via a proxy I can't see nor open folders beneath the outer
level. I didn't experience that problem with mozilla releases prior to 1.2b.
Since archiving incoming and outgoing emails to the archive in question is
essential I have to stay with release 1.2a until this problem has been solved.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. repeatedly shift releases 1.2a and 1.2b to verify that the problem persists
2.
3.

Comment 1

[Christian Mondrup]

I ought to specify that by 'proxy' I mean an ssh tunnel.

Comment 2

[Christian Mondrup]

Looks like I must withdraw my bug report. Even upon downgrading to release 1.2a
I still didn't get access to all subfolders. Probably the real cause of the
problem was that my home directory must have been corrupted upon a crash (I
don't know where and what). Now I've re-created my home directory and *can*
again see all sub directories of the IMAP account in question.

Sorry for the inconveniance.

Comment 3

[Torben]

Resolving as invalid due to comment 3. 

Christian, you should be able to do this yourself on your own bugs.

Comment 4

[laurel]

marking verified

Comment 5

[Christian Mondrup]

It seems that I should reopen this bug. The reported problem persists after I
have reorganized my home directory. What happens repeatedly is that my folder
hierarchy of my IMAP email archive 'suddenly' is gone such that I see only the
outermost folders. Now I've also experienced that problem with the most recent
stable mozilla version 1.2.1. The remedy for the problem is still to downgrade
to the stable version 1.1. When I launch its messenger on the said IMAP account
I regain access to my folder hierarchy and keep it for some - unpredictable time
- after having again upgraded mozilla.

Since my original bug report I've modified my IMAP access from being SSL based
to a port forwarding SSH tunneling. This does not prevent the reported problem
to pop up.

Comment 6

[Judd Rogers]

Ditto.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021202

Using the WU imapd, I used to have IMAP/Archive/inbox/2002, ... but now can only
see the folders immediatly below IMAP. It does not help to hit the refresh
button in the subscribe dialog.

Where does mozilla store the directory layout? I'd be willing to remove that
file in hopes of forcing mozilla to pay attention.

Comment 7

[Jochen Eisinger]

Here mozilla happily displays subfolders up to two levels, but the third level
is most often not visible, i.e. sometimes i get

INBOX.Mailing-Lists.security-focus.bugtraq etc..

but most often i only get

INBOX.Mailing-Lists.security-focus

and that's it

Comment 8

[Robert Sander]

related to bug #232077

Comment 9

[Andrew Schultz]

Robert: only drivers can set (+) blocking flags.  you can request (?) them.

Comment 10

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 11

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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