221714 - Mails invisible when .msf-file is read only

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect)

Description

[Frank Klein]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925

If you change the .msf-files under Windows to read-only then Mozilla-Mail
doesn't show any of your mails but the mail-folders are still visible. It would
be nice if Mozilla-Mail could show an alert-box with a warning or a hint,
because it was a great shock as I thought my mails are gone.

Thank you in advance,
Frank

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to the folder where the mails are stored
2. change one or many .msf-files to read-only under Windows
3. start Mozilla-Mail and see no mails any more
Actual Results:  
No data lost but you can't see the mails in the folder.

Expected Results:  
Give me a warning that the .msf-file is read-only and I have to change it back
to see my mails again.

Comment 1

[Henrik Gemal]

if you fx readonly the INBOX.msf file the INBOX folder as just shown as empty.
I'm seeing alot of morkBool_kFalse assertions because of this.

not really sure what we can/should do?

Reporter: can you find out what other program does?

Anyways this issue is very minor but it's a good bug since it's nice that's it
documented.

###!!! ASSERTION: morkBool_kFalse: '0', file c:/mozilla/mozilla/db/mork/src/mork
Config.cpp, line 57
gemal: CreateNewFile: C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\HENRIK GEMAL\APPLICATION DATA\Th
underbird\Profiles\mail\rge83luq.slt\ImapMail\imap.gemal.dk\INBOX.msf

failed to get view & sort values.  ex = [Exception... "Component returned failur
e code: 0x80004003 (NS_ERROR_INVALID_POINTER) [nsIMsgFolder.getMsgDatabase]"  ns
result: "0x80004003 (NS_ERROR_INVALID_POINTER)"  location: "JS frame :: chrome:/
/messenger/content/commandglue.js :: FolderPaneSelectionChange :: line 716"  dat
a: no]

Comment 2

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

Comment 3

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter on "Nobody_NScomTLD_20080620"

Comment 5

[Micah Gersten]

Is this a dupe of bug 37124

Comment 6

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Is this a dupe of bug 37124

No. This is another bug.

Comment 7

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Removing myslef on all the bugs I'm cced on. Please NI me if you need something on MailNews Core bugs from me.