284770 - if TEMP directory doesn't exist, Thunderbird has major problems

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Jesse Coddington]

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/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Last night I deleted the temporary directory for windows and forgot to recreate
it again.  Here's a list of problems.

1. I went into Thunderbird 1.0 Final and when it was receiving email, it could
only receive 1 message and then stop.  I then would check the mail again and it
would receive another message and stop.  The messages that were retrieved
weren't even valid.  The emails only contained the character '-' in most of the
fields (subject, from, body).  None of the original email is there, causing you
to loose the current email information.

2. When trying to send an email, I would get the message "unable to send or save
email c:\windows\temp\nsmail.html"

I'm going to see what other problems Thunderbird has when the Temp directory
isn't there.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Delete temp directory
2. Open Thunderbird and try to get your email or send email.



Expected Results:  
If Thunderbird needs a directory that isn't there to function, either create the
directory or warn the user and disable functions that would cause errors.

Comment 1

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

Confirming "lack of automatic TEMP directry creation feature" portion, based on
test in bug 260034 (See bug 260034 comment #45).
(Since bug 260034 is different problem, automatic "TEMP" directry creation was
not requested in it.)

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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