31503 - Need sanity check for valid local mail directory

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Profile Migration, defect, P3)

Description

[Paul MacQuiddy]

I kept trying to migrate my 4.x profile over on win95, and I kept being unable
to open my IMAP mail. It took me 2 hours to figure out, but the problem was my
INBOX was not being created. Why you ask? Because I had a pref in my 4.x profile
- user_pref("mail.imap.root_dir", "/u/paulmac/ns_imap/");
which must have shown up there because I have Roaming Access which shares my
prefs between my Linux and Windows boxes. Once I removed this pref from my 4.x
prefs.js file, I was able to migrate over without any problems.

What happens is Seamonkey uses this pref to set the Local Mail Directory, which
I saw when I opened Mail/News Account Settings, and clicked on Server under
paulmac on nsmail-2 and looked at the bottom, "Local Directory".

All I can figure out is that Messenger must have been trying to create my inbox
and an invalid or inaccessible directory and that hosed my mail.








user_pref("mail.imap.root_dir", "/u/paulmac/ns_imap/");

Comment 1

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

moving to m16.

Comment 2

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

accepting.

Comment 3

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

really accepting this time.

Comment 4

[selmer (gone)]

Mass moving M16 to M17 - look for nsbeta2 before anything else.

Comment 5

[scottputterman]

moving to future milestone. cc'ing bienvenu. David, we're futuring this because 
we think this is unlikely to occur.  Does that seem reasonable?

Comment 6

[David :Bienvenu]

I'm not sure - but a sanity check seems like a good thing to me, since it's
easy, and it might enable someone to read mail. I'm putting back to m20.

Comment 7

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

migration bugs to racham

Comment 8

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

mass re-assign.

Comment 9

[Max Spicer]

*** Bug 200605 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Max Spicer]

It's worth noting that this does not just apply to migrated prefs.  If a user
deletes their mail directory, and then restarts mozilla, mozilla makes no
attempt to recreate the directory, and doesn't inform the user that it's
missing.  You end up in a state where the account name is displayed, but no
subfolders are listed (you don't even get the + that normally expands them). 
All the user can do to fix this is create a new account, or fix the pref to
point to a valid mail dir.

Comment 11

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

Comment 12

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

we no longer migrate 4.x.
Is there anything still applicable for newer stuff like SM?

Comment 13

[:aceman]

We have added some sanity checks on validity of Local Directory in e.g. bug 750781. I am not sure if they help the mentioned case.