198966 - Creating a folder ~MyFolder~ is bad (Folder disappears after restart when folder name ends with "~")

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Database, defect)

Description

[David Ohlemacher]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003

I created a folder named ~FromHome~.  It worked fine. I created a filter and it
moved a bunch of email into the new folder. 

When I restarted Mozilla, the folder did not appear. The files are in my home
dir.  The filter complained that the folder did not exist anymore.  

May be recoverable by renaming the email files....I will try it.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create ~folderName~
2. Put some mail in it.
3. Restart Mozilla

Actual Results:  
The folder and mail are gone.  

Expected Results:  
Disallow creating a folder with tildas in  the name.

I lost data...emails.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Why Do you think that this is related to ldap ?

Comment 2

[David Ohlemacher]

All right, maybe mail database is a better component.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

.

Comment 4

[David :Bienvenu]

it's not a mail database issue; it's a mail backend bug. It's probably a dup of
the other bugs having to do with invalid characters in local folder names.

Comment 5

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

(In reply to comment #4)
>It's probably a dup of the other bugs
David, I also believed so. 
But I could not find any other valid mail bug which includes "~" in summary and
symptom relates to folder name. 
 Next 15 bug found.
   Product   = Thunderbird || mail&news
   Status    = UNCONFIRMED || NEW || ASSIGNED || REOPENED
   RESOLUION = ---
   Summary contains = ~
  bug  47386, bug  58345, bug  83693, bug  86082, bug 118267,
  bug 156572, bug 169395, bug 179502, bug 198966, bug 200395,
  bug 206463, bug 222526, bug 225364, bug 237974, bug 242474
And "~" related problem is not listed in dependency tree for meta bug 124287.
As far as I remember, "~" problem was mentioned only by bug 94124 comment #12,
which is "#" problem, and bug 124287 comment #13, which is the meta bug.
So I list up this bug in meta bug 124287.

Following is my test result on Thunderbird latest-0.9 2004/11/18 build(Win-2K).
 (1) ~FIRST => OK (first tilde)
 (2) LAST~  => Disapeared after restart (last tilde)
Internal path for "LAST~" folder is ;
  mailbox:/C|/ ....... /Mail/test.test.test/Test.sbd/LAST~
Then resource under it becomes mailbox: .... /LAST~/xxxx.
But "~/" is current working directry(on Unix)...

Anyway, this is "New" bug, although very very old problem.

Comment 6

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

Sorry, ~/ was home directry.

Comment 7

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

Add additional description to summary for ease of search.

Comment 8

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

Developers are now trying to resolve all of "starting dot"(Bug 229522) and
"ending dot"(Bug 117840) and "ending tilde"(this bug) problems in Bug 229522.
Watch Bug 229522, please.

Comment 9

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Marking FIXED by checkin for bug 229522.

Comment 10

[Hideo Oshima]

(In reply to comment #9)
> Marking FIXED by checkin for bug 229522.
 
This is still NEW, isn't it?

Comment 11

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Thx. Really marking fixed, must have slipped before.