209194 - A colon in folder name does not work properly with message filter

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Filters, defect)

Description

[Chris Loos]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529

I defined a folder with a name "ML: Test" and defined a message filter, that all
emails from a special email address have to be moved to that folder.
Running the message filter manually it works fine but if the emails are
downloaded via pop3 autmatically an error appears: the folder with that names
does not exists and the filter rules will be disabled.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Define a folder name "abc: xyz"
2. Define a filter rule which moves new emails to that folder
3. Wait till the mail client downloads the emails automatically
4. An error appears

Actual Results:  
The filter rule was disabled

Expected Results:  
;-) Nice question... The mail had been moved to that folder ;-))

I am using the modern theme, nothing else.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Chris Loos]

Fixed!

Comment 3

[Jason Bassford]

No specific bug / patch referenced as the fix.

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