370819 - Question marks in Folder titles cause mail to be displayed blank.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 41944

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Alex Latchford]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20060601 Firefox/2.0.0.1 (Ubuntu-edgy)
Build Identifier: version 1.5.0.9 (20070103)

Howdy guys,

I am forwarding this bug on behalf of Alan, he has reported,
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mozilla-thunderbird/+bug/85579
that if you create a folder with a question mark in the folder title then you cannot read any mail inside that folder, it will just display blankly.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a new folder in any of your accounts. Use a ? in the name
2. Move or copy any message in it (or set a filter for incoming mail, as I did)
3. try reading anything. If the ? is at the beginning of the name, Thunderbird will fail silently (messages wil look blank), if it's in the middle or in the end, it will fail with an error.
Actual Results:  
Blank preview window and main message window.

Expected Results:  
Mail should be displayed normally.

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

Can you try this in Thunderbird 2? I'd suggest backing up your profile before you attempt to do this.

Also, do you see anything in the JavaScript console after following these steps?

Comment 2

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Yep, this is working for me in 2. Duping...