204171 - mail does not save settings

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect)

Description

[tashrobinson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

 Changes to Mail and newsgroup account settings are frequently not retained. 
Specificaly to the copies and folders settings.  I have repeatedly set it to
place a copy of sent messages into a specific folder, after clicking ok it
reverts to the previous settings.  Also sent mail is not being saved to the
folder it reverts to, i can not get it to save at all.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to mail and newsgroup account settings
2.change anything
3.click ok
4.go to mail and newsgroup account settings and see nothing was saved
Actual Results:  
nothing was saved, sent mail still is not saved in any folder

Expected Results:  
the settings I selected are retained and sent mail is saved in the folder specified

this happens on all three computers I am using with mozilla 1.3 and windows XP

Comment 1

[Schelstraete Bart]

Did you try the following actions:

- Change something in the preferences
- SHUT DOWN Mozilla in a proper way. (quit/or exit, but do not kill it)
- Start Mozilla again, and watch the settings.


  Bart

Comment 2

[tashrobinson]

Bart,

Yes I have tried that, the settings are still not saved.  But to clarify, this
only hapens in the Copies and Folders settings, the other settings, server
settings, adressing, disk space, etc. all save properly.  

thanks for your help

Comment 3

[MAL]

Is this still being looked at?  I have had this problem on and off for ever,
(1.0->1.4), on a seemingly random basis, (on one particular machine).

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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