210456 - mozilla hangs when subscribe to large number of new folders

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Brad Bulger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030623
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030623

I am trying to migrate from Pine to Mozilla Mail. My mail lives on a remote
server, and I use IMAP to read it. I have a LOT of folders, over 750 of them. I
rearranged them into a hierarchy of files in folders in my home server account's
~me/mail directory, and updated my .mailboxlist to match it.
I open Mozilla, go into the subscribe area, and make sure I am subscribed to the
new mailbox files in their new locations. Both now, and before when there was 
just the one long list of mailboxes, Mozilla seems to get stuck somewhere. I am
using the Mac OS X version, and all of the options under the 'Mozilla' menu
other than "About Mozilla" disappear. I have to manually kill the mozilla-binary
process to get it to quit (a not-uncommon problem with the latest build, btw -
too many select fields on a web page can cause the same stuckness).

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create an account with hundreds of mailboxes
2. Set up a Mozilla Mail profile pointing at that account, using IMAP. Initially
only
subscribe to a few mailboxes.
3. Change your subscriptions to include all of the mailboxes.
4. Try to do stuff.

Actual Results:  
Mozilla takes a nap.

Expected Results:  
Opened the folder, or moved the messages to Junk, or displayed the new mail -
anything

This is probably going to be impossible to reproduce but maybe the 'Mozilla' menu
disappearing will at least point people towards some kind of better error-catching.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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