274558 - Can't see rss feeds with titles that start with "." (a dot character)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, defect)

Description

[bgruber]

As far as I know, there's nothing about RSS that stops you from having a feed
with a title that begins with a "."  Thunderbird adds those feeds just fine, but
it won't actually show them in the folder list.  I imagine that perhaps this
isn't an issue on Windows (where the dotfiles aren't necessarily considered
"hidden"), but I haven't tested it on anything other than FreeBSD.

Comment 1

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

Probably same cause as Bug 229522(starting dot in local folder file name).
We are trying to resolve this by similar approach to Bug 262018(# or ; in RSS feed).
Watch Bug 229522 for a while, please.

Mscott, your help to Bug 229522 is very approciated.
Regards. 

Comment 2

[daneel]

I just want to verify this bug.  I "fixed" it by going into the mail directory
and changing all files and directories starting with a dot (.) and replaced them
with the word "Dot".  It's ugly but it makes Thunderbird usable again.  

Comment 3

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

Confirming according to comment #2,
and setting dependecy on Bug 229522 for ease of search.

Comment 4

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Bug 229522 landed, do someone still see this? (or have a samle feed url so I can test it) 

Comment 5

[Phoenix]

No response to Comment 4 for five years, closing as invalid