29581 - Can't create imap folder with '>' in the name

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect, P5)

Description

[Karen Huang]

Used 02-28-08-M15 commercial build:

Users should be able to create ">" on Netscape Messaging Server.

1) Tried to created ">" folder.
2) Actual Results: Error displayed: "The current
command did not succeed, the mail server responded: Invalid mailbox name" on 5.0

Expected results: Should display this folder name successfully on 5.0 without 
error.

Comment 1

[Karen Huang]

This bug is related to bug#20324... change QA contact to me.

Comment 2

[John G. Myers]

This is probably related to bug 22474, which is showing the truncation of a ">" 
character.

Comment 3

[Phil Peterson]

-> bienvenu

Comment 4

[David :Bienvenu]

No, it's just that we're escaping the new folder name when we create the url, 
but not unescaping it when we pull it out of the url. I'm not sure if the fix is 
to not escape the folder name at all, or to unescape when we pull it out.

Comment 5

[David :Bienvenu]

Actually, I take it back.  '>' is used internally as the 
IMAP_URL_TOKEN_SEPARATOR. I.e, when we create an imap url, we use the '>' 
character to separate parts of the url. So when we're parsing the url, we get 
confused by '>' as part of a folder name.  4.5 has this same problem, as near as 
I can tell, but no one has noticed, as far as I can tell.

Comment 6

[lchiang]

karen - can you confirm that 4.x has the same problem? Thanks.

Comment 7

[David :Bienvenu]

adding mail3 keyword

Comment 8

[David :Bienvenu]

changing priorities

Comment 9

[scottputterman]

marking nsbeta1- due to fact it doesn't affect many users.

Comment 10

[Thomas]

Does the "Netscape Messaging Server" still exists?

Comment 11

[timeless]

server products don't go away just because their vendors do.

that said this server probably migrated via iplanet to sun(one).

Comment 12

[buovjaga]

Not using Netscape Messaging Server, but still reproduced (fails silently, OVH server).

Thunderbird 52.1.1 (32-bit)
Windows 7 64-bit

Comment 13

[github]

Confirming that I still have this problem on 115.8.0 (64-bit) on mac, working with my own domain's IMAP server. I have just started using Thunderbird -- with my previous mail client I created a lot of folders with ">" in the name. Thunderbird displays them OK but is unable to rename any of them, the rename operation just silently reverts to the original folder name. I think it is interpreting the ">" as an IMAP instruction.