207565 - Local Directory as a Windows network path results in message body being unviewable

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 133153

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect)

Description

[Geoff Greig]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401

In Mail & Newsgroup Account Settings, Server Settings, Local Directory, If the
local directory is set using windows network path eg.
\\Office\e\Mail\pop.ozemail.com.au
then no message bodies are displayed in the mail window, although the message
subjects are displayed in the top section of the window.

If a mapped network drive is used eg.
x:\Mail\pop.ozemail.com.au
the all works ok 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. In local Directory set a windows network path to your mail
2. Exit Mail and Mozilla (required for the change to take effect)
3. Re-enter mail and click on any message


Actual Results:  
The body of the mail message will not appear

Expected Results:  
The body of the messages should appear 

I do appreciate that the prompt is "Local Directory" and that the mail is ment
to be stored on a local PC.  However I, and assume others also, use a small home
network and do not want email spread over multiple computers.  But want to be
able to reead and write mail on any computer. 

Using a maped drive over comes this problem but creates other problem when using
filters.  Filters can not be directed to maped drives.

Comment 1

[Brian Rodewald]

Also occurs in Windows Server 2003, FWIW.

Comment 2

[Andrew Hagen]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 133153 ***