226289 - invalid mailbox name

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[David Anderson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031108 Firebird/0.7+
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.4a (20031026)

I have an account at dreamhost.com
Currently, they use box Coutier IMAP, which creates all subdirectories under the
Inbox folder, including the Sent folder.

I set up a couple of email accounts and logged in with thunderbird.  Everything
works great until I send an email.  Thunderbird sends the email fine, then
attempts to save it in the (currently non-existant) Sent folder (to be under the
Inbox).  Instead of saving, thunderbird fails and prompts a message with
"Invalid Mailbox Name".

1 point of interest.  An admin over at dreamhost went in to 1 of the new
accounts using Mozilla 1.5 Mail and Mozilla 1.5 Mail successful set up the Sent
and Drafts folders. Now, using Thunderbird, the email copy is placed in the Sent
Folder without complaint.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a new email account with a Coutier IMAP server.
2. Log in using Thunderbird.
3. Send an email.
4. Observe 'invalid mailbox name' message and failure to save a copy in Sent sub
folder.
5. Log in using Mozilla Mail.
6. Log in using Thunderbird.
7. Send an email.
8. Note successful copy of email to Sent sub folder.

Comment 1

[Scott MacGregor]

weird I use dreamhose too and I don't see this. Maybe I already had a valid sent
folder.

Comment 2

[David Anderson]

This problem seems to go away in Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5+ (20040312) Windows,
I'll just assume its going to work on Linux.

I'm just going to throw my own private party here.

Nothing to see here, move along.