20878 - IMAP: Support root folder

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Networking, defect, P3)

Description

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

I can't find a setting migrated or used, that determines the root folder on the
server: All folders are written in ~/ on the server.

Comment 1

[justin hugh daly]

from what i can see, nsIMAPHostSessionList supports this with

SetOnlineHostForDir, though i don't have enough knowledge regarding reading

prefs to add.

Comment 2

[Phil Peterson]

IMAP interop is a beta stopper

Comment 3

[Scott MacGregor]

Hey Ben I know I've asked you this before, but what kind of imap server are you
using.

Comment 4

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

I'm using UW-IMAP, version 4.5 (or greater?). It reports
* OK smserver.home.local IMAP4rev1 v12.250 server ready

Comment 5

[Phil Peterson]

Nominate as beta1 stopper

Comment 6

[leger]

Putting on the PDT+ radar for beta1.

Comment 7

[Alec Flett]

I just implemented the UI for this, and seth did the backend work to make it
migrate correctly...scott - you'll find the string you need in
nsIImapIncomingServer.serverDirectory

Comment 8

[Karen Huang]

This bug is related to bug#2734...
Yes. I have seen the improvement for the "Advance" Preferences/Account Setup UI.
And it seemed that (on Linux)..the personal namespace UI already brought info 
from 4.7 to 5.0, but I didn't try on the field of the "IMAP server directory" 
yet....I am still investigating on bug#2734...
The UI part is really good improvement!!

Comment 9

[Karen Huang]

Please see more comments/investigation from bug#2734.

Comment 10

[Scott MacGregor]

bienvenu, phil and I talked about this and it isn't a beta1 bug. the only thing
we are missing is appending the root folder to new folders when the user creates
them.

Comment 11

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Bummer.

Migration is also broken. The Sent etc. folders are searched in the home dir,
not the root mail dir.

Comment 12

[Scott MacGregor]

Moving my remaining M14 bugs to M15 which is the next targeted milestone.

Comment 13

[Scott MacGregor]

sending over to jefft in case he has some spare cycles. Jeff, feel free to
change the target date if you are already over your M15 quota =).

Comment 14

[jefft]

This has been fixed. To test: Edit|Mail/News Account Setup|Server|Advanced to 
set up IMAP server directory.

Comment 15

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Jeff,
Did you fix this or do you just refer to the UI? Ths UI is there for a longer
time (see comment from 2000-02-01), but the backend doesn't work. I still get
e.g.

+-Inbox
+-Sent
+-Draft
+-mymailroot
  +-Draft
  +-myfolder1
  +-myfolder2
  +-Sent
if I set mymailroot as root. If you didn't change anything, please reopen.

Comment 16

[jefft]

The backend is working too. If you set the mymailroot as your imap server 
directory the Draft, myfolder1, myfolder2 and Sent should appear as the first 
level mail folder. However, this is all depend on the subsrciption list saved in  
~/.mailboxlist. We don't have the subcribe UI implemented yet. Use 4.x for 
subscription then compare the behavior between seamonkey and 4.x. They should be 
the same.

Comment 17

[Kurt Werle]

I'm pretty sure what you're saying is that it still doesn't work under Mozilla.  I don't wanna hear there's a hackaround!  Isn't it getting close to release time?  And IMAP still doesn't work?  How is that justified?

Comment 18

[jefft]

You have a good point. I am sure I fixed it at one time. We still have a beta2 
feature crunch period. It'll probably take few months. Reopenning...

Comment 19

[selmer (gone)]

Mass moving to M16 to get these off the M15 radar.  Please let me know if this
is really an M15 stopper.

Comment 20

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

This is important interop - beta2 nomination.

Comment 21

[jefft]

I have a fix. I need to do more tests before I check in.

Comment 22

[jefft]

Fix checked in.

Comment 23

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

verified on linux.

Comment 24

[Karen Huang]

Verified on WinNT 05-09-08-M16
Great!! I see the progress on IMAP server directory now!!
I will verify on Mac later.....

Comment 25

[Karen Huang]

Verified on Linux & Mac 05-09-08-M16 commercial build
Verified on Mac 05-09-08-M16 commercial build
I think this bug for this specific problem had been fixed, other related 
problems already addressed from other bugs.
Marking as verified.