467735 - Clicking on IMAP folders such as Junk gets error

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: General, defect)

Description

[Dave Kimberley]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.9.1b2pre) Gecko/20081119 SeaMonkey/2.0a2pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.9.1b2pre) Gecko/20081120 SeaMonkey/2.0a2pre

On clicking on a folder such as Junk I get the following Alert popping up:

The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: SELECT failed: Can't open mailbox ~|mail|Junk: no such mailbox.

On further investigation this problem first occurred on the nightly build on 20/11/2008, it worked correctly on the nightly build from 19/11/2008.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on Junk folder
2. Alert appears



Expected Results:  
See messages in folder

This problem first occurred on the nightly build on 20/11/2008, it worked correctly on the nightly build from 19/11/2008.

Comment 1

[Tobias Fischer]

There are two IMAP-related checkins in the given range, for Bug 249754 and Bug 396874. Bug 396874 caused an regression, which was fixed already. 

Please test again with an current Nightly-Build and the SeaMonkey Alpha2-candidate.

Comment 2

[Dave Kimberley]

I have tried the Alpha2 candidate and that also gets the error, I am downloading the latest nightly now.

I have the following set:

mail.server.server1.server_sub_directory: ~/mail/

Comment 3

[Dave Kimberley]

Latest nightly also gets the error.

Comment 4

[David :Bienvenu]

is the server really using '|' as the hierarchy delimiter?

Comment 5

[Dave Kimberley]

No the server is Solaris and uses '/' as in '~/mail/' but the error message does show '|'

Comment 6

[Dave Kimberley]

Just downloaded the latest nighlty build and the error still occurs.

I have just tried putting various characters in the string for: mail.server.server1.server_sub_directory

They all appear correctly apart from "/" which appears as "|" ("\" appears as "\" and "|" appears as "|").

Comment 7

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

(In reply to comment #2)
> mail.server.server1.server_sub_directory: ~/mail/
(In reply to comment #6)
> I have just tried putting various characters in the string for:
> mail.server.server1.server_sub_directory
> They all appear correctly apart from "/" which appears as "|" ("\" appears as
"\" and "|" appears as "|").

Sounds to be similar phenomenon observed by Bug 467860 Comment #29, Bug 467860 Comment #29, and Bug 467860 Comment #33.
  IMAP folder path for templates is set as .../Non_Existent/XXX_Templates. 
  If higher IMAP folder path(.../Non_Existent) doesn't exist,
  8 create "Non_Existent^XXX_Templates" is issued by Tb trunk.
  ("/" is replaced by "^" in our case)

Your case looks for me ;
  Mail folder of "~" is not found, then "/" in folder path was replaced by "|".

Question to know your environment.
> mail.server.server1.server_sub_directory
It's set in "IMAP server directory directory:" of Server Settings/Advanced.
And use of this setting is probably affected by namespace settings.
  (a) Personal namespace:/Public(shared)/Other Users:
  (b) Checked/Uncheck of "Allow server to override these namespaces"
Do you uncheck (b)? Your IMAP server doesn't support namespace?

Comment 8

[Dave Kimberley]

I have experimented a bit and have found that clearing the all the namespaces and leaving "Allow server to override these namespaces" checked solves the problem.

Comment 9

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

(In reply to comment #8)
> I have experimented a bit and have found that clearing the all the namespaces
> and leaving "Allow server to override these namespaces" checked solves the problem.

What was set in followings when you could produce problem?
> IMAP server directory directory: ~/mail/
> namespace settings;
>  Personal namespace: ???
>  Public(shared):     ???
>  Other Users:        ???
>  [Unchecked] "Allow server to override these namespaces"
"|" is set in your namespace setting?

By the way, I tested with similar setting to above(~/mail instead of ~/mail/) with Gmail IMAP, with Tb trunk.
In my test with Gmail IMAP, "list ~/mail" or "list ~/mail/Junk" failed. But first creation request seems to be "create ~/mail/Junk", and Gmail created Gmail Label of "~/mail/Junk" with no problem. So I couldn't reproduce your problem with mail.server.serverN.server_sub_directory=~/mail/Junk.

Comment 10

[Dave Kimberley]

When problem occurred the following were set:

Personal namespace:
Public(shared):
Other Users:

and I cleared them. None of them had a "|" in them. I did not record the previous values.

Comment 11

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

WADA in comment #7
> 
> Sounds to be similar phenomenon observed by Bug 467860 Comment #29, Bug 467860
> Comment #29, and Bug 467860 Comment #33.
>   IMAP folder path for templates is set as .../Non_Existent/XXX_Templates. 
>   If higher IMAP folder path(.../Non_Existent) doesn't exist,
>   8 create "Non_Existent^XXX_Templates" is issued by Tb trunk.
>   ("/" is replaced by "^" in our case)
> 

does that mean bug 476260 would also help here?

Comment 12

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

reporter's bugmail address is dead