282620 - Settings not saved in Tools/Account Settings/Default Account / Copies & Folders:

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[scott rainey]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041206 Firefox/1.0

In: Tools / Account Settings / "Default Account" / Copies & Folders 
My selections are not saved.  
Sent mail is not saved to SENT file in default account.  This happens in the
Default account only, in all other accounts it works fine. This is how I
discovered the problem.

Settings "stick" in all but default account.  I have 7 email accounts set up
including default, plus local outgoing and giganews.  Mail sent from other
accounts is copied to "SENT" box in that account.

In my default account, SENT has sub folders.  

I find nothing in "prefs.js" to indicate that this file stores those settings. 
and cannot find a file in which those settings are in fact saved.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
My system has a very complex setup.  
This may not be a problem on a clean build. 
I have 405 email files that total over 700 meg (plus indexes). 
I store my data files in child directorys closer to the root:  eg:
C:\Email\Mail\inbox


Actual Results:  
The radio boxes in the dialog box: 
    Tools / Account Settings/ Default Account / Copies & Folders 
always appear blank.  When I set them and exit the dialog box, and return, they
go back to being blank.  This also occurs upon exit and restart of program and
reboot of system.

Expected Results:  
When I return to 
    Tools / Account Settings/ Default Account / Copies & Folders 
selections I have made should still be presented. 

This seems to be the same bug previously repored in other Mozilla Products:

Mozilla suite Bug # 239656 (2004/11/22)  

CORE Bug # 221386 (2005/1/31)

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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