443808 - (movemail) Cannot create movemail account in SeaMonkey

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect)

Description

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.2pre) Gecko/2008070601 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre

In the "Add Account" wizard, on the first page, the only options available are "Mail" and "Newsgroups". This means I cannot set up an account in SeaMonkey to receive the "mail" sent to /var/spool/mail/root by my cron jobs, or any other "internal mail" on my Linux system.

Thunderbird 2 can do it.

Comment 1

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

wfm on mac trunk (I have the option)

Comment 2

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

(In reply to comment #1)
> wfm on mac trunk (I have the option)
> 

Movemail is supposed to be "Unix only"; and I suppose OS X and Linux are both "Unix-like OSes", but I don't see the option. So I suppose the bug is Linux-only, but the fact that the option exists on Mac warrants a pp (platform-parity) keyword. You see it on SeaMonkey (as opposed to Thunderbird), don't you?

Comment 3

[Karsten Düsterloh]

> Movemail is supposed to be "Unix only"; and I suppose OS X and Linux are both
> "Unix-like OSes",

Yes, only Linux, OS X and the like should provide this option, not Windows.

> You see it on SeaMonkey (as opposed to Thunderbird), don't you?

Thunderbird removed the option for Mac in bug 365879.

Comment 4

[Robert Kaiser]

I see it in my private builds, but it probably needs to be added to the section in http://mxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/suite/installer/unix/packages?#457 so it gets packaged in nightlies.

Comment 5

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

The packager supports wildcards, so you can just package /bin/isp/* (though it whines a little about subdirectories, so Thunderbird's /bin/isp/en-US and /bin/isp/en-US/gmail.rdf produce meaningless "errors" that have no effect).

Comment 6

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

500 bin/isp/SpamAssassin.sfd
501 bin/isp/SpamPal.sfd

Is there anything more than movemail.rdf and the spam stuff that we want to be packaged?

Comment 7

[Robert Kaiser]

stefanh:
From what I see, we only want bin/isp/movemail.rdf to be added.

Comment 8

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

Attachment: Add movemail.rdf to suite/installer/unix/packages

(In reply to comment #7)
> stefanh:
> From what I see, we only want bin/isp/movemail.rdf to be added.

OK, thanks - lets add it then ;-) Note that I can't test this...

Comment 9

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

Btw, another option is of course to do as philor suggest in comment #5

Comment 10

[Robert Kaiser]

(In reply to comment #9)
> Btw, another option is of course to do as philor suggest in comment #5

I like your patch better, we should avoid the wildcards where reasonable.

Comment 11

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

Checking in suite/installer/unix/packages;
/cvsroot/mozilla/suite/installer/unix/packages,v  <--  packages
new revision: 1.20; previous revision: 1.19
done

Comment 12

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1a2pre) Gecko/2008073100 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre

VERIFIED.

The option now exists and triggers the account-creation wizard. The account seems to work. (If in fact it doesn't I'll either REOPEN or file a followup bug.)
The mail spool file may have to be created by
    cp /dev/null /var/spool/mail/$USER
    chmod 666 /var/spool/mail/$USER
otherwise Movemail will alert "Cannot find mail spool file" when trying to get mail. IIUC this is normal.

Sorry for delay, I've been offline for a week and then had to clear a huge incoming-mail backlog.