220295 - Subfolders or messages in subfolders not shown correctly

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 249807

(MailNews Core :: Networking: IMAP, defect)

Description

[Sebastian Blum]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1
Build Identifier: All Versions of Mozilla Mail and Thunderbird

In a large subfolder-tree some subfolders don't unfold or messages are not shown
even they exist. For example; We had a subfolder named 'noch absagen (waren
nicht eingeladen)' - This folder contained 18 other subfolders containing
messages. Only two of this folders were shown. After renaming the folder to a
shorter name (noch absagen (nicht da)) all subfolders unfolded and the messages
where visible. In the subscribe-menu ALL folders are visible and marked as
subscribed.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Dunno, large imap-structure (min. depth 4), long folder names, many subfolders

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

what's you local directory set to in your imap server preferences? My guess is
that you're just running into a limitation of the total length of a file on
win32, for our local .msf files. You can move the local directory (where we
store the per-server information) to a location much closer to the root of the
file system (e.g., c:\serverInfo) and then you won't run into this limitation.
You will need to copy over any interesting files,like your filters, to that
server directory

Comment 2

[Sebastian Blum]

Thank you very much, this was the problem. After moving it to "c:\mail"
everything works fine. Sorry for the hastily bugreport

kind regards, basti

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

No, thx for filing such a good bug report :-) It's definitely a bug - we need to
at least put up an informative error message, or better, don't put our imap
files in such a long deeply nested hierarchy to begin with

Comment 4

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

Close code of WORKSFORME is incorrect. Duping to open Bug 249807.