290451 - IMAP Saved Search folders will break when using a & or other special characters in the name

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Ger Teunis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050412 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050412 Firefox/1.0+

When creating a Saved Search folder with an & in it's name it will break the
Saved Search Folder (renaming will also do).
In the profile folder and in thunderbird the folder gets extra '-' and %20's in
its name and the Saved Search Folder breaks.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a Saved Search folder on an IMAP account
2. Make sure to use a '&' in the name (like "Fora & News", without quotes)
3. Close Thunderbird
4. Open thunderbird and open the Saved Search Folder

Actual Results:  
The foldername isn't correct, it gets extra %20's and/or -'s. In the profile
folder the Saved Search folder's name is also corrupt.

When opening the Saved Search Folder it doesn't work.
("The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: SELECT failed:
Can't open mailbox fora&--news: no such mailbox")

Expected Results:  
A working Saved Search Folder with correct name (and correctly created in the
profile folder).

Every restart Thunderbird seems to change Saved Search Folder somewhat. Some
extra -'s or %20's are added/removed on restart.

Comment 1

[Oliver Saier]

I'm seeing this as well, running a 4/14 build (Win XP sp2). Have you tried
another special character like ¢, ~, @, £, *, µ etc. ?

Comment 2

[Ger Teunis]

(In reply to comment #1)
> I'm seeing this as well, running a 4/14 build (Win XP sp2). Have you tried
> another special character like ¢, ~, @, £, *, µ etc. ?

All don't work except the @ and ~ one, some of the rest seem to work after the
first restart but completely change the name after second start.
(µ into &ALU- and after that not displayed anymore)

Slightly offtopic, after renaming a Saved Search Folder the previous folder in
profiledata isn't deleted (previous-ssf-name).sbd

Until now everything between @ and 'lowercase z' works as expected (use i.e.
charmap), but not completely sure which character works and which doesn't (too
much to check them all :)

Comment 3

[Ger Teunis]

Could anyone who is allowed please change the Status to NEW? (Just for the record)

Comment 4

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Comment 5

[Ger Teunis]

Still badly broken and messing up the search folders.
And the folder names may not contain other special characters (mentioned in one
of the coments).

Comment 6

[Oliver Saier]

Maybe severity should be lowered to minor, still I have no idea why nobody's
confirmed this one.

Comment 7

[Alan Hart]

Attachment: Picture of the bug occurring - search folder name corrupted and erroneously duplicated

Comment 8

[Alan Hart]

Still seeing this on 1.5RC1. Thunderbird crashed shortly after I renamed some  folders not to have spaces in them. Saved searches with spaces in not only have weird names each time TB is reloaded, but error dialogs are repeatedly thrown up.

It's an Imap mailbox (Courier). Happy to supply a log if that helps you. I told it to conduct the search online (don't know if that matters).

Alan

Comment 9

[Alan Hart]

bug 314688 appears to be a duplicate of this one.

Comment 10

[u88484]

Changing status to NEW based on comments

Comment 11

[u88484]

(In reply to comment #8)
> Still seeing this on 1.5RC1. Thunderbird crashed shortly after I renamed some 
> folders not to have spaces in them. Saved searches with spaces in not only have
> weird names each time TB is reloaded, but error dialogs are repeatedly thrown
> up.
> 
> It's an Imap mailbox (Courier). Happy to supply a log if that helps you. I told
> it to conduct the search online (don't know if that matters).
> 
> Alan
> 

Yes please supply the log...may help out.

Comment 12

[andrewz]

After a while (restarting TB?) when using a space in the name, the saved folder breaks (I can't get any messages or see the properites) and I get the same error message:

"The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: SELECT
failed: Can't open mailbox fora&--news: no such mailbox")

However, using an underscore has been working OK.

TB 1.5.0.7
Windows XP
uw-imap-2002e-5tr on Trustix 2.2

Comment 13

[Oliver Saier]

Maybe fixed by the patch for Bug 302470 (which was concerning virtual forders)

Comment 14

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

->WFM on Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2pre) Gecko/20070213 Thunderbird/2.0pre ID:2007021303 

Probably fixed by the bug mentioned.