294679 - Creating folders with colons in name causes thunderbird to act funny and rules don't work for it.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Steve Kiehl]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

I've just come across this problem when I tried to rename a folder to something
similar to "Something::Else" from a folder named simply "Whatever".  I found
that the rules would not register the folder as existing, and I could not even
delete the folder in Thunderbird.  I had to browse through a terminal into the
Thunderbird profile on my mac and remove the files by saying "rm -rf
Something\:\:Else*".

When I first made the folder, I made it by renaming another folder, and when I
did that and clicked 'okay', nothing happened and the rename dialog was still
there but I couldn't do anything outside the dialog (obviously).  So I typed in
something else because it seemed to not accept it.

To my surprise, it had accepted the name, but the dialog somehow didn't go away
and asked me to rename it again.  So I renamed it to "Something-Else" and
everything seemed fine for a moment.  I did not realize that it first accepted
the name until a little while later...

Thunderbird went to check mail and my rules kicked in and complained that
"Something::Else" didn't exist. I appeared that it adjusted the rules to my
first suggestion ("Something::Else") and didn't change it again when I set the
folder to "Something-Else".

After all this went through, I could not click on the first three folders in
thunderbird (Inbox, Drafts, Templates) which were in my first account's folder.

So I tried to delete the "Something::Else" folder several times with no luck,
and restart things to see if that would help, but still couldn't delete the
folder, but I could get to the inbox and all correctly.  I had to delete the
folder and related files by hand.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Rename a folder (that has a rule that moves messages to it) to something like
"My::Folder" (In my case, it was in the local folders within a subfolder).  The
rename dialog should reappear and ask you to rename it again.  Change it to
something even more different like "Some-Email".
2. Try to click on the first inbox, drafts and templates folder in the folder
list.  Restart and see if you can delete the new "My::Folder" folder that you
created in your local folders.
3. Check your rule and see that it's been set to move message to "My::Folder"
instead of "Some-Email".
4. You'll have to delete it by hand since it won't delete.
Actual Results:  
I had a few glitches in thunderbird and then couldn't delete the folder.

Expected Results:  
it should have accepted the folder fair and square and deleted it if I wanted it
to be deleted.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Probably the Mac-version of bug 140212 (: is the folder separator on Mac).

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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