225430 - Unable to save settings to save my drafts and templates

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 221386

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect)

Description

[Sven Heise]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; de-AT; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; de-AT; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

If i want to save my account-settings to save ny draft or templates to the
folders and then press the OK button.It does not work.The settings can not be saved.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.I am going to Edit and then to Account settings.
2.Then i am goind to Copies + Folders.
3.I am pressing the button to: Place a copy in Sent Folder on my account.
  I am pressing the button to: Keep a message in Drafts Folder on my account.
  I am pressing the button to: Keep a message in Templates Folder on my account. 
  Finally i press the OK button.
Actual Results:  
Settings in Copies + Folders disappear.(Can't be saved)

Expected Results:  
Let the user to be able to save their settings propperly

Comment 1

[William Garrison]

I know how to fix this one!  The problem is that the path to the templates
folder is messed-up.  In my case, it was because the slashes are reversed since
I used the same Mozilla profile on Linux and Windows.

Open your prefs.js file, and find the line that looks something like:
user_pref("mail.identity.id1.stationery_folder",
"mailbox://[e-mail]\\Templates");

There is a nearly identical entry for the Drafts and Sent folders.  Manually fix
those lines to read:

user_pref("mail.identity.id1.stationery_folder",
"mailbox://[e-mail]/Templates");

Your problem may differ slightly, but I expect it comes down to a corrupted line
in the config file.

In my opinion, this is still a bug, because if the user changes the setting in
the GUI, Mozilla should rewrite the line and fix the problem.  There should be
no need to change the prefs.js file manually.  A bonus would be to make the
prefs.js file parser handle slashes in either direction, or to fix them when it
rewrites it.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Sven Heise, did comment 1 help you with your problem?
Please read bug 221386, and mark this bug as a dupe of that if you think that is 
appropriate; if not, please say why.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

No response from reporter, duping.

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