301091 - Sent messages no longer saved - account setting doesn't retain save msg in sent folder

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect)

Description

[kinetic]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414

Previously was using v 1.6.x
Sent messages were correctly saved to sent folder as set in mail account
settings.  After a couple of weeks sent messages were no longer being saved, and
checking the box in the mail account settings (Copies and Folders) to place a
copy of a sent message in my 'Sent' folder would not be reatined (ie, I check
the box and click ok, I either close Mozilla nad reopen, or simply go back to
the Mail Account settings and the box is blank again - version 1.7.7 has not
fixed this.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Send a message - copy not saved in Sent folder
2. Go to Mail Account Settings\Copies & Folders and check 'Place a copy in" and
check '"sent" Folder on.....Click OK
3. Go back to the Mail Account Settings and the boxes are unchecked again

Actual Results:  
Explained above

Expected Results:  
The settings should have been retained and sent messages should be saved in my
"Sent" folder

Not aware of any changes to my system that would cause this change in behaviour
(note that sent messages were properly saved in the "Sent" folder for a few
weeks after installing.  Only using XP SP 1 (not SP 2).  Virus checkers (McAfee)
have remained the same.

This PC is an AMD Athlon 3200+

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Do you see any errors in JavaScript Console (Tools->Web Development->JavaScript
Console) after clicking the OK button?

Comment 2

[kinetic]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Do you see any errors in JavaScript Console (Tools->Web Development->JavaScript
> Console) after clicking the OK button?

Yes - here is the detail:

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code:
0x80004003 (NS_ERROR_INVALID_POINTER) [nsIMsgIdentity.fccFolder]"  nsresult:
"0x80004003 (NS_ERROR_INVALID_POINTER)"  location: "JS frame ::
chrome://messenger/content/AccountManager.js :: getAccountValue :: line 906" 
data: no]

Thanks

Comment 3

[benbla]

Got the same problem as described above. Goes also for "Save draft" and "Save
template": settings do not stick!

Used Thunderbird 1.0.6, now updated to 1.0.7 (20050923), still the same problem.

Running Win XP SP 2, Zone Alarm Firewall & Norton AntiVirus.

Comment 4

[Andreas Franke (gone)]

This seems to be the same problem as the following Thunderbird bugs:
bug 303271 	"place a copy in:" option does not work
bug 312180 	Copies & Folders Account Settings are not saved

Having the same problem on Linux with Mozilla 1.7 and 1.7.8, thus confirming.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #4)
> This seems to be the same problem as the following Thunderbird bugs:
> bug 303271     "place a copy in:" option does not work
> bug 312180     Copies & Folders Account Settings are not saved
> 
> Having the same problem on Linux with Mozilla 1.7 and 1.7.8, thus confirming.

Tony, can you confirm this is gone?
Both Kinetic and   benbla and gone (dead addresses)