200988 - nsImapProtocol::DiscoverMailboxList can't list all folders

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 200989

(MailNews Core :: Networking: IMAP, defect)

Description

[Calvin Liu]

Hi, Bienvenu,

A piece of code in this method like this.
...
if (usingSubscription) // default, 
//set the option "Show only subscribed folders" checked.
  {
    pattern.Append(prefix);
    pattern.Append("*");
  }
else //set the option "Show only subscribed folders" unchecked.
  {
    pattern.Append(prefix);
    pattern.Append("%"); // mscott just need one percent right?
    // pattern = PR_smprintf("%s%%", prefix);
    char delimiter = ns->GetDelimiter();
    if (delimiter)
    {
      // delimiter might be NIL, in which case there's no hierarchy anyway
      pattern2 = prefix;
      pattern2 += "%";
      pattern2 += delimiter;
      pattern2 += "%";
 // pattern2 = PR_smprintf("%s%%%c%%", prefix, delimiter);
    }
}
                                                                               
                                                                              ...
Don't know why we assign pattern2 a value like "prefix%delimiter%" here, but not
"prefix*" or something like that. I guess there must be some reasons. But what's
that?

Currently, if user has the option "Show only subscribed folders" unchecked,
he'll see only 2 level folders. If he wants to see more, he has to expand the
tree manually. Sounds inconvenient, right?

Calvin

Comment 1

[Calvin Liu]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 200989 ***

Comment 2

[Sébastien Delahaye]

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