Closed
Bug 28254
Opened 25 years ago
Closed 24 years ago
Should add servers' folders restriction for UI & functionality in New folder dialog
Categories
(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect, P3)
SeaMonkey
MailNews: Message Display
Tracking
(Not tracked)
VERIFIED
FIXED
Future
People
(Reporter: huang, Assigned: jefft)
Details
(Whiteboard: [nsbeta3+] fix in hand for both (1) and (2))
Attachments
(1 file)
8.95 KB,
patch
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Details | Diff | Splinter Review |
02-16-08-M14 all platforms commercial build: Should add servers' folders restriction for UI & functionality in New folder dialog This bug is related to bug#20879. For some specific servers (ex:UW IMAP server), the servers' subfolders can be either a folder-only folder or message-only folder.. so we should add the servers' folders restriction UI & functionality in New folder dialog.
Comment 1•25 years ago
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Does the 4.x product do this?
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Comment 2•25 years ago
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Yes. It is. But it needs to uncheck "server supports folders that contain subfolders & messages" from the IMAP server's Advanced dialog.
Comment 4•24 years ago
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Phil found a way to weasel out of owning this bug. Reassigning.
Assignee: phil → selmer
Comment 5•24 years ago
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CC Jennifer to see if we need UI input for this. Just guessing here, but assign to putterman, mark M16 as possible beta2 stopper. If this is wrong, please adjust.
Target Milestone: --- → M16
Comment 6•24 years ago
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reassigning to jefft who I think would be the owner of this bug. please reassign if I'm wrong.
Assignee: selmer → jefft
Comment 7•24 years ago
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Not beta2 stopper, marking M18. Please add beta2 keyword if you disagree.
Target Milestone: M16 → M18
This would be a feature. Are we going to do this for Beta2 for interop?
Keywords: beta2
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Comment 9•24 years ago
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Adding [FEATURE] on the summary based on Lisa's comments. So who will decide whether this feature will be in beta2 or not?
Summary: Should add servers' folders restriction for UI & functionality in New folder dialog → [FEATURE]Should add servers' folders restriction for UI & functionality in New folder dialog
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Comment 10•24 years ago
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Per bug 20879 Jeff comments, should this bug assign to Seth? Ccing Seth.
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Comment 11•24 years ago
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Seth, you're doing the new folder dialog, do you?
Comment 12•24 years ago
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The context menu entry |New folder...| should be greyed out completely, if it's a folder-only folder. <quote author=me src="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20879"> [I think, we need to fix this bug], even if it only means appending a "/" for the implementation. I think, I know UW-IMAP to some extent :), but it was not clear to me, that I could create a folder-only folder by just specifying "<name>/", before I saw it at Karen's examples. I dare to claim, that less experienced users will come to the conclusion, that they are not at all able to create folders within folders, unless we provide UI for it. The server pref is less of a problem, because it can be specified by an administrator. </quote>
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Comment 13•24 years ago
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Ben, I thought that the Context menu/create new subfolder should grey out for message-only folder (which is the folder with the "Noinferior" flag), isn't it? And I think we should address the context menu to separate bug...either you or I can log that bug.....
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Comment 14•24 years ago
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So, may I ask: who will take care of the new folder dialog design for this specific IMAP server(ex. UW IMAP server)?
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Comment 15•24 years ago
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Either seth or me. Doesn't matter.
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Comment 16•24 years ago
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Clear nsbeta2- & nsbeta2 since beta2 is over. Adding nsbeta3 for the keywords.
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Comment 18•24 years ago
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Without this fix, I couldn't create/specify folder-only or message-only folder for specific UW IMAP server.....since create folder-only or messages-folder only will be the basic functionality for UW IMAP server. I am removing the nsbeta3- to re-evaulte again.....
Whiteboard: [nsbeta3-]
Comment 19•24 years ago
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Adding Kevin to the CC list. Kevin, how high do you rate the ability to create folder-only and message-only folders on UW Imap?
Comment 20•24 years ago
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Let's see, the last time we minused a UW UI bug, we got educated by either mscott or bienvenu on their ubiquity. Also, I thought that UW IMAP servers only allowed single-use behavior, so is the question redundant? Our previous rationale was "IT Admins setting up UW IMAP servers will know that UW IMAP servers do not allow dual use..." So, if that's not a true statement, then we should plus this bug. Additionally, we are making plus decisions based on whether it is important enough to displace another bug on our plus list. So if you can find one that should come off the list in favor of putting this one on, by all means offer it up. -Kevin
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Comment 21•24 years ago
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Just remind PDT team: UI freeze will be on 9/15. We better decide this will be nsbeta3+ or nsbeta3- earlier....
Comment 22•24 years ago
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Jeff, what is your recommendation?
Comment 23•24 years ago
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Karen - so you can't create any folders at all for UW servers?
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Comment 24•24 years ago
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I would suggest nsbeta3+. We should pay attention to the pref whether the server support dual use of message-only or both capability. We need to provide user a way of creating folder-only mail folder.
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Comment 25•24 years ago
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Answer Lisa's question: On Netscape6.0: 1) Users still can create UW folder, but it will default to create message-only folder on 6.0. 2) With above default, if users tried to create subfolder under the messages-only folder, nothing happening, no subfolders have been created and no error, users probably will lost at this point. 3) Without specifying from this new folder dialog for UW, users won't understand why they cannot create subfolders under the message-folder. 4) Since bug 20879 (Support "dual_use_folders" = false) already fixed, we really need to fix this bug for consistency.
Comment 26•24 years ago
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nsbeta3+, P3. If we can't get this fixed in time, we need to remove the non-functional UI for the pref...
Whiteboard: [nsbeta3+]
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Comment 27•24 years ago
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Based on the 6.0 implementation this bug seems not easy to fix. Two problems need to be addressed here: 1) allow users to specify whether they want to create a folder-only or message-only mail folder 2) we need to grey out (not allow user to pick) the message-only folder when we present the parent folder picker popup menu 1) is doable however 2) is hard. Currently we use nc:CanCreateSubfolder as a rule to indicate whether we should grey out the folder or not, we check whether the folder has the \Noinferior flag or not. We use lsub command instead of list command (list command doesn't work well with UW server). We only list Inbox and Trash folder but not other folders. \Noselect flag on UW server tells us that the mail folder is a folder-only mailbox. It seems hard to work out a logic for both UW server and other server to check whether a folder has \Noinferior or \Noselect flag. More time needed here.
Comment 28•24 years ago
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So, is the capability of creating these folders worth the pain of getting an error message when you select a message-only parent?
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Comment 29•24 years ago
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The error message comes free from the server. User should be prompted with a message saying that the folder cannot be selected.
Comment 30•24 years ago
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mailtriage consensus is that we should implement the dialog and let the bad folders be in the menu. (That is, implement your (1) but not (2).)
Whiteboard: [nsbeta3+] → [nsbeta3+] fix in hand for both (1) and (2)
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Comment 31•24 years ago
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Comment 32•24 years ago
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Fix checked in.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Comment 33•24 years ago
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I guess #2 wasn't *that* hard to fix. ;-) Nice job! -Kevin
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Comment 34•24 years ago
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Verified on all the platforms: WinNT 09-13-12-M18 commercial build Linux 09-13-12-M18 commercial build Mac 09-13-12-M18 commercial build Verify fix for both: 1) allow users to specify whether they want to create a folder-only or message-only mail folder 2) we need to grey out (not allow user to pick) the message-only folder when we present the parent folder picker popup menu Great job! Jeff. Marking as verified!!
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Updated•20 years ago
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Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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