359905 - After Install, if you move default mail local directory, old directory still used.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 2654

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[steve shank]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

If you do a install of thunderbird 1.507 and immediately move the local directory for mail to something reasonable like c:\data\mail and then send out an email to test you will fail to send because it will not find the draft or sent message. I think this is because it will still look in the old folder under documents and settings etc. this hypothesis is unconfirmed.

If you exit the program and then restart the program then it seems to be ok.

I experienced this installing on two computers and got the same results. Different XP machine types entirely. I was not getting the mail on startup because I wanted to create the new data location before downloading any mail. I then tested the send to make sure things were setup properly. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install thunderbird. Do not get mail
2. Move local mail folder to another location. 
3. Get mail and then immediately write an email and send it. Do this before exiting the program.

Actual Results:  
Error message saying it cannot find file folder. Does not send.


I am guessing that the draft or sent folder is remaining in the default location until after the program is restarted. So it is saved there but checked in the the location so it is not found. Problems multiply from there. Things seem to be ok if you exit the program and then re-enter.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Duplicate of an ancient bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2654 ***