270879 - unselectable mailboxes should be silently ignored

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Phil Kernick]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; T312461; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: version 0.7.3 (20040803)

Using the uwash imap server, some mailboxes are represented in the filesystem 
as directories - these can only contain mailboxes and not messages.

This is configured in the Account Settings / Advanced / IMAP / Server supports 
folders that contain sub-folders and messages.

In this case that option is not set.

When this option is not set, Thunderbird should not complain about unselectable 
mailboxes, and should continue up the tree until it finds one or until it gets 
to the account root.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a Second level mailbox.
2. Select the mailbox with the mouse
3. Click the [-] button by the first level mailbox to collapse the tree.

Actual Results:  
An error dialog pops up saying that the first level mailbox is unselectable.

Expected Results:  
The focus should have moved back to the server root instead with no error.  In 
essence backtrack the mailbox hierarchy until you get to a selectable mailbox 
or reach the server root.

Comment 1

[Phil Kernick]

Confirmed that this issues still exists in version 0.9 (20041103)

Comment 2

[Phil Kernick]

Confirmed that this problem still exists in TB1.0.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.