Open
Bug 31503
Opened 25 years ago
Updated 2 years ago
Need sanity check for valid local mail directory
Categories
(MailNews Core :: Profile Migration, defect, P3)
MailNews Core
Profile Migration
Tracking
(Not tracked)
NEW
People
(Reporter: paulmac, Unassigned)
Details
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 2•25 years ago
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accepting.
Comment 4•25 years ago
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Mass moving M16 to M17 - look for nsbeta2 before anything else.
Target Milestone: M16 → M17
Comment 5•25 years ago
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moving to future milestone. cc'ing bienvenu. David, we're futuring this because
we think this is unlikely to occur. Does that seem reasonable?
Target Milestone: M17 → Future
Comment 6•25 years ago
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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.
Target Milestone: Future → M20
Updated•23 years ago
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Target Milestone: mozilla0.9.9 → mozilla1.0.1
Comment 9•21 years ago
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*** Bug 200605 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10•21 years ago
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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.
OS: other → All
Hardware: PC → All
Target Milestone: mozilla1.0.1 → ---
Updated•20 years ago
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Product: MailNews → Core
Comment 11•18 years ago
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sorry for the spam. making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs. filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.
Assignee: sspitzer → nobody
Updated•17 years ago
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QA Contact: agracebush → profile-migration
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Updated•17 years ago
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Product: Core → MailNews Core
Comment 12•12 years ago
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we no longer migrate 4.x.
Is there anything still applicable for newer stuff like SM?
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Comment 13•12 years ago
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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.
Updated•2 years ago
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Severity: normal → S3
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