Closed
Bug 353959
Opened 19 years ago
Closed 14 years ago
RSS site information saves a filename (':') that is only valid on unix-like systems
Categories
(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
INVALID
People
(Reporter: knocte, Unassigned)
Details
(Keywords: dataloss)
If we subscribe to an RSS channel that contains a name like, for example, "hello::there", the filename saved on the profile will be named with the same name as the channel if we are using Linux.
This is terrible for backup systems and migration operations. I have encountered this when trying to copy the Thunderbird accounts info to a FAT filesystem: the ':' character is not valid for filenames.
Thunderbird should use always filenames that are friendly with the majority of the filesystems. (I suppose that, in Windows, Thunderbird will take care of this situation, so I just propose to copy the behaviour from Windows into Linux, for the safety of the data.)
I have filed this into Security because this bug may be the cause of data loss, like in my case.
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Comment 1•19 years ago
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xref bug 301109.
Summary: RSS site information saves a filename that is only valid on unix-like systems → RSS site information saves a filename (':') that is only valid on unix-like systems
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Comment 2•17 years ago
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Andre do you still see the issue with veriosn 2 of thunderbird ?
Component: RSS → Feed Reader
Product: Thunderbird → MailNews Core
Version: 1.5 → 1.8 Branch
this is no longer valid, reopen if reproducible.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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