205822 - Import of folders from Outlook containing the "/" character fail

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 140212

(MailNews Core :: Import, defect)

Description

[Murry Gavin]

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

When importing mail from Outlook or from Eurdora, all folders that contain the
"/" character failed. I then tried to manually create a local folder containing
the "/" character and it failed and did not give any type of message or
suggestion. Although this happened on Windows PC, it was also tried on PC
running Linux with same results. If attempt to create a folder containing a "/"
is done on the mail server, a message saying that the mail server doesn't
support "/" in names is returned.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Highlight a local folder
2.Right click to "add sub folder"
3.Fill in folder name such as "this/that" and click OK
4.Note that new folder popup just sets there and no folder is created

Actual Results:  
New folder popup just sets there and no new folder is created.

Expected Results:  
Should have provided an error popup saying that "/" characters are not supported
in folder names and offer alternative legal choices.

Comment 1

[WD]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 140212 ***

Comment 2

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

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