274957 - Escape character in folder name turns Thunderbird 0.9-1.0 stupid

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Adam Perry]

On my network, a large percentage of users have a folder name of Trash<ESC>2,
where <ESC> is ASCII 027.  When accessing this folder with IMAP under
Thunderbird, an hourglass cursor appears immediately and nothing happens.  No
folder contents are displayed, the hourglass never goes away, nadda.

Subsequently selecting a different folder does permit its contents to be viewed,
but no new messages are downloaded from the server, as if the IMAP end of things
is completely hosed.  Left unattended overnight, Thunderbird does not recover
from this state by itself.

And once in this state, normal means of closing the program don't work.  Under
Windows, I'm forced to kill the application using the Task Manager.  With Linux,
I find myself issuing a kill -9.

Neither Outlook nor Eudora suffer this same fate, and each seems to cohabitate
fine with the (admittedly malformed, but definately defacto legitimate and
currently in-use) folder name and access it without episode.  Therefore, I must
reason that it is a bug in Thunderbird, and not anything in particular wrong
with my server's configuration or the folder name itself.

I've not verified that the bug persists when using POP3.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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

This bug has had no comments for a long time. Statistically, we have found that
bug reports that have not been confirmed by a second user after three months are
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Comment 2

[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.