287191 - IMAP server setting causes incompatibility

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, enhancement)

Description

[Kim B. Nielsen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

This default setting for the IMAP servers:
  Server support folders that contain sub-folders and messages

found in:
  Account Settings-> <account> -> Server Settings -> Advanced

Is by default on. This causes problems with some IMAP servers, that doesn't
support this. But if the setting is left off by default, the users of these
servers won't have any problems, and the users of the servers, which support
this, won't have problems either. 

This does, in my experience, present a significant problem to new users and to
users without technical knowhow or desire/courage to modify settings.

Therefore, my suggestion is to change the default setting to off, to maximize
compatibillity.

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
The default setting should be different, as mentioned in the details.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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