184097 - disallow / in mailbox-names for *nix based OSs

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 120559

(MailNews Core :: Database, defect)

Description

[Bjarne D Mathiesen]

Mozilla/5.0 -- Gecko/20021206
(Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.3a; MultiZilla v1.1.32 final) 

I needed to set up a folder for sorting messages concerning OS/2 into.
Thus, I created an OS/2 folder, and started browsing.
Suddendly, Mozilla crashed !

Upon starting Mozilla again, I discovered, that my OS/2 folder now was named OS
with another subfolder named 2 in it.

I investigated, and discovered that instead of having created an OS/2 mailbox
along with its adjacent OS/2.msf two folders had been created both with a
mailbox called 2 inside.

This is - in hindsight - of course based on the fact that *nix OSs uses the / to
designate folder paths, thus leading to this problem.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 120559 ***