265776 - thunderbird won't read local folder from remote drive

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[Boris Schlüszler]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

thunderbird 0.8
Windows NT 4 SP 6
fileserver "server": Linux running samba
samba exporting service \\drive\service

The thunderbird profile directory has been placed under
\\drive\service\mozilla\thunderbird to keep the files backupped on server tarballs.

thunderbird may fetch mail from the server: The new headers are displayed in the
"local folders"-display, and they're marked unread. Its content is crrectly
placed into the mbox files, as one can see in directory display via explorer for
example, if you look at the mbox-files in
\\drive\service\mozilla\thunderbird\Mail\... Its size is also displayed
correctly in the mails table.

But its content isn't displayed. And you can't delete or move the messages.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. set up an account on a remote drive \\drive\service\mozilla\thunderbird
2. receive some mail
3. try to read it!

Actual Results:  
nothing happens, the message cannot be displayed

Expected Results:  
it should display the message's content. It should be deletable und movable.

Display works fine on "real" local drives, like C:\thunderbird...

It won't work on X:\thunderbird, as X is remote. (You just can't enter ist
profile destination as X, you just can browse to it)...

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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