205829 - Create mail folder with forward slash in name, fails

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 140212

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[john]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030509
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030509

When I tried to create a folder named Compaq/HP, it just sits there and ignores
when I click the OK button.  Of course, it's easy to work around by substituting
a hyphen instead.

But there's more!  Figuring that this bug has to do with the fact that forward
slash is often used as an escape charcter, I tried creating a folder with a
DOUBLE forward slash in it.  I expected a name to be created with a single
forward slash but it fooled me:  The exact name IS created (with the double
forward slash), BUT....you can't delete this folder!  And, you can't rename it
either!  So now I have a local folder called test//hello that I can't get rid of.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Samuel Sieb]

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

Comment 2

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

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