471174 - Thunderbird should auto detect the root folder for Imap Account (IMAP Server Directory "INBOX.")

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 80858

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[Vincent (caméléon)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5
Build Identifier: 3.0 beta1

When creating a new imap account, the folder appear like subfolder of the inbox

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create a new account with these parameters: 
- email adress: [e-mail]
- imap: imap.laposte.net
- smtp: smtp.laposte.net
- password: test
Actual Results:  
Thunderbird connects to the server and display all the folder as subfolder of the Inbox, as show on this image: http://imagik.fr/view/188023

Expected Results:  
Thunderbird display the folder Sent, Trash,... at the same level as the Inbox

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

Yes, that's the way some imap mail servers organize their folders. All the folders actually are sub-folders of the INBOX. If you want Thunderbird to display all the sub-folders of the inbox as top-level folders, you can go into the advanced imap server settings for that account and set the online directory to "INBOX.".

We could try to hide the way your imap server works from you, and perhaps we should...in theory, it should be fairly easy, but the personal namespace/online directory handling code is a little fragile, since we have to do the translation between what we display to the user and what the imap server expects.

Comment 2

[Vincent (caméléon)]

The problem is that it is quite disturbing for an average user, and very difficult to solve cause it is really unfriendly and undocumented... If something could be done automaticaly , it would be very nice.
Another popular french ISP is concerned: Free.fr (I could create another test account if needed).

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

dupe of bug 80858?  or at least blocking bug 160644?

Comment 4

[David :Bienvenu]

yes to both, though there's a lot of cruft in bug 80858...I guess I'll mark it a dup anyway, thx.