224369 - Copies & Folders settings not saved...

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 221386

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect)

Description

[fredo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

Hello I have 2 accounts in the same profile. The first one - Frederik (Home) -
works OK. The second - Frederik (Work) - works OK except, the settings in the
Copies & Folders window are not saved. I can enter them again and again, they're
not saved - this is pretty annoying. Any mail that is send for example is not in
the Sent for of Frederik (Work).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Fill out settings
2. Select another screen
3. Go back - settings gone

Actual Results:  
Settings not saved.

Expected Results:  
Save settings as in my 1st account - Frederik (Home).

none

Comment 1

[fredo]

Attachment: This is the screen I'm talking about in my bug report...

When entering any info in this screen, it's not saved/kept.

Comment 2

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

Isn't it DUPE of Bug 2654?

"Known Issues"/"Messenger (Mail and News)"/"General Mail and News Issues"
section of "Release Note" of almost releases of Mozilla refers to this longlived
bug.
( http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.5/known-issues.html#mail ) 
> 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)

Or DUPE of Bug 143485 "Copies & Folders not saved"?

Comment 3

[fredo]

Restart didn't help me. I recreated the account (or I added another account,
moved all my mails and renamed it after I deleted the non-working one). Now
everything seems OK. I think the porblem was somewhere in the prefs.js file. Not
sure.

Comment 4

[Bernd Gründling]

I created a new account and started to copy all settings from the old one. When
it came to Copies & Folders, suddenly my first account started to work again.
Still annoying, but at least I did not have to copy my mails to the new account.

Comment 5

[Alexander Zink :alex]

Hi,
the same problem happened with my account after having it converted from
Netscape 4.8 (?) to Mozilla 1.5/1.6a. The whole 'Copies & Folders' dialog just
remains un-initialized.

Problem is that linked to the dialog problem I had a severe DATA LOSS, because
all my 'Sent' emails are just gone to Nirvana since I have moved to Mozilla -
even though I thought to have set up the 'Copies & Folders' page correctly after
the profile conversion! So not only the dialog remains un-initialized, but also
the whole 'Copy to Sent-Folder' functionality is broken!
Just today did I have to look up a previously sent email and discovered the
problem - No mails in the 'Sent' folder since the time of profile conversion!!!

The workaround described previously also worked for me: I created a new email
account and deleted it again immediately afterwards. Now the 'Copies & Folders'
page contains sensible data and outgoing messages are correctly stored in my
'Sent' folder! Note: I did not change or touch the original account in any way
for this workaround. The 'Sent-Folder' functionality (and dialog initialization)
just started working again after the described steps had been performed...

Ciao,
Alex  :-)

Comment 6

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 221386 ***