242736 - Problem writing popstate.dat when hidden flag set

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(MailNews Core :: Networking: POP, defect)

Description

[Christian Eyrich]

An error was reported by a forum user that when the hidden flag is set for the
slt folder (or any below in the hierarchy) the same messages are downloaded with
each retrieve.
This with the "leave messages on server" option set, of course.

Since the message itself is properly written to the inbox, it can't be a general
access problem. Investigations showed, that the popstate.dat doesn't get
modified when in a hidden hierarchy - time modified and content is as it was before.
The problem was reproduced on two different WinXP installations but I didn't
succeed in reproducing it on Win98.

Comment 1

[Christian Eyrich]

I've now verified this on W2k but still not on Win98.
Clarification, the popstate.date file itself has to be hidden. On the original
system that has been done implicit by saying OK to the systems question if any
child folders or files should also get marked as hidden.

Comment 2

[OstGote!]

I read reports about this in Mozilla 1.7rc1 and Thunderbird.

Comment 3

[(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 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Nikolay, can you reproduce this error?  not on w98 of course :)