Closed Bug 24814 Opened 25 years ago Closed 25 years ago

cannot select IMAP folder in "copies and folders" preferences in version 4.7 (I could in 4.6)

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect, P3)

x86
Windows 98
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED INVALID

People

(Reporter: kohli, Assigned: phil)

Details

I used to have my folder for sent mail be a folder called "sent-mail" (what 
Pine uses) and my folder for drafts be "postponed-messages", both in the "Mail" 
subdirectory of my IMAP root directory. (I set this up under Netscape 4.6)
  (If you're confused, ask anyone familiar with Pine. These are the names of the 
default Pine folders for sent and postponed messages)
  I had noticed that if I tried setting these preferences on another computer 
with Netscape 4.7, it would not keep those folders as the preferences but would 
instead change the folder to "Sent" and "Drafts" in the root directory (the 
Netscape default).
  Some time ago, I upgraded to 4.7, and it kept my preferences.
  Today, my Messenger crashed and it couldn't recognize my inbox (it said "???" 
for number of messages and unread messages.) When I restarted my computer, it 
recognized my inbox, but when I sent a message, I realized that it was not 
saving it in the right place. I looked at the preferences, and the "Copies and 
Folders" preferences had been reset.
  So I tried changing it to what it should be. But when I tied sending a 
message, it said that it could not save the message into my "sent-mail" folder 
because "the folder already exists". Then, when I looked again at the 
preferences to change my postponed messages folder back to what it should have 
been, it wouldn't keep my selection after I"d hit "OK". Instead, it would choose 
the folders "Sent" and "Drafts", and then I'd change it back to "sent-mail" and 
"postponed-messages" and hit "OK" and then I'd check again, and it wouldn't have 
kept it again, so I"d try again, and it would fail, etc.
  The point is that this was not a problem with Netscape 4.6, and the only 
reason it was working in 4.7 was because it kept the settings from 4.6 for the 
profile. But I couldn't set my fodlers as I wasnted in eiterh other profiles or 
on other computers, so this is definitely a problem introduced in Netscape 4.7.
  Thanks! (I did a search for this bug but couldn't come up with anything, so 
that's why I"m sending it in)
  Enjoy the rest of the weekend!
   — Harpaul
Are you using 5.0?  This bug database (Bugzilla) is for reporting bugs against 
mozilla 5.0.  Thanks.
Sounds like problems from 4.6 to 4.7. Marking invalid for mozilla.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
verified invalid for 5.0.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: MailNews → Core
Product: Core → MailNews Core
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