26439 - Need to improve "Personal Namespace" on advance IMAP preference

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect, P3)

Description

[Karen Huang]

02-03-10-M14 mozilla build:
Now, from bug#19248, we can see the UI display for advance IMAP for personal 
namespace.
when verifying bug#24715, the prefs.js still display "\"Inbox.\"" instead of 
"Inbox."
We need to improve that inorder to bring the "Inbox." from 4.7 to 5.0.

Comment 1

[Karen Huang]

Change QA contact to me.

Comment 2

[Phil Peterson]

Reassign to jefft, cc alecf.

Comment 3

[Alec Flett]

CC'ing sspitzer, this might be a migration issue.

Comment 4

[jefft]

I think migration does the right thing. In the pref we still stored as 
"\"Inbox.\"" why we did this way? I don't know. Chris Fuchs implemented this a 
while back. I don't know if there is an easy way to not having the extra double 
quotes.

Comment 5

[scottputterman]

Moving to M18 and nominating for beta3.

Comment 6

[lchiang]

Karen - is there any harm if we don't fix this?

Comment 7

[Karen Huang]

Since migration does bring the "Inbox." value for IMAP Cyrus "Personal 
Namespace" on UI. So I think that will be fine for not fixing prefs.js file for  
beta3. Removing nsbeta3 for the keywords, let developers to decide the target 
milestone.

Comment 8

[scottputterman]

reassigning jefft's bugs to naving

Comment 9

[Karen Huang]

Ccing Cavin. 

Comment 10

[Karen Huang]

Since this bug blocked bug 27002 and bug 27002 has been nominating nsbeta1. So 
this bug should be in nsbeta1 for next release.....

Comment 11

[Henry Jia]

CC to myself.

Comment 12

[Henry Jia]

This is not a bug.
2 reasons:
1. The imap server may support more than one "Personal Namespace"(also it can
support more than one "Public Namespace" and "OtherUsers Namespace"). By using
"\"", mozilla may successfully read the whole settings string instead part of
it. Because they are seperated by ",". Following is from my preference(a UW V4R1
IMAP server).
user_pref("mail.server.server4.namespace.other_users", "\"~\"");
user_pref("mail.server.server4.namespace.personal", "\"#mh/\",\"#mhinbox\",\"\"");
user_pref("mail.server.server4.namespace.public",
"\"#public/\",\"#news.\",\"#ftp/\",\"#shared/\"");
2. In the current implementation of mozilla, "" stands for there is not such a
namespace(See the followings from my preference.), otherwise, "\"\"" stands for
there is a namespace "".
user_pref("mail.server.server5.namespace.other_users", "");
user_pref("mail.server.server5.namespace.personal", "");
user_pref("mail.server.server5.namespace.public", "");

Mark this bug WONTFIX.

Another thing, this bug should not block bug 27002 which can be solved
seperately. So, clear the "blocks" area.

Comment 13

[Henry Jia]

Hi, Karen Huang, please verify. Thanks.