222646 - account directory change refresh

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 2654

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect)

Description

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

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

After changing an account's local directory, the change is not immediately
effective. One must close all mozilla windows, (even browser or composer) and
restart. I think the change should be immediate (which would allow seing
immediately if the new setting is ok for example when pointing to an already
existing mail directory) or at least Mozilla should display a warning telling
the user must completely exit all mozilla modules (as it does when changing the
theme).


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.change the account local directory
2.open the account folder


Actual Results:  
it still contains the old folder contents

Expected Results:  
show the new directory contents.

Comment 1

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

This is already reported and repeatedly reported and longlived bug.
See "Messenger(Mail and News)"/"General Mail and News Issues" section of
"Release Note" for any release of Mozilla (Almost all Relese Notes refer to the
bug).
> In the Mail/News Account Settings: Server Settings dialog box,
> any changes you make to local directory settings won't take effect
> until you exit and restart Mozilla (Bug 2654) 

Comment 2

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

Sorry, I had searched for "change mail local directory" in bugzilla and I got no
answer, so I had deduced that nobody had complained about this before. It still
does not show bug 2654 although all the search words are present in the bug
description. Strange. Maybe I should create a bug report for bugzilla?

Comment 3

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Comment 4

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2654 ***