300367 - Thunderbird should support IMAP referrals

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 59704

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Bitt Faulk]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050512 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: version 1.0 (20041208)

Thunderbird appears to ignore IMAP login and mailbox referrals.

My mail administrator recently moved my INBOX to a different server and the
original server correctly responded to my login with this RFC2221 login referral:

 OK [REFERRAL imap://user;AUTH=*@new-server.example.com/] LOGIN completed.

(The OK response is valid because there are still public folders available on
the original server.)  Thunderbird appeared to ignore the REFERRAL but
complained apparently when trying to select a mailbox by popping up a dialog saying:

 The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: [REFERRAL
imap://user;AUTH=*@new-server.example.com/*] The requested mailbox is not
available on this server..

This implies that the server correctly sent a "NO" response and included the
RFC2193 mailbox REFERRAL, which Thunderbird didn't understand and simply
reported to me verbatim.

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
Thunderbird ignored the login referral and complained about the mailbox referral(s).

Expected Results:  
Transparently used the new IMAP server, possibly reporting to me that it had.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Duplicate of bug 59704. 

Comment 2

[David :Bienvenu]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 59704 ***