56855 - Folders not listed alphabetically

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect, P3)

Description

[wtcorrea]

Go to Edit | Mail/News Account Settings | Copies and Folders | Special Folders.

If you pull down the list of folders for an imap server, the folders will come
in random order.

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Confirmed with 102504 win32 and 102508 linux mozilla trunk builds.  The list
does not get sorted alphabetically.  The list appears to be sorted in order
created.  In mac however, after a restart of Mozilla the list is sorted
alphabetically.

Comment 2

[Bill McGonigle (not currently reading bugmail; please contact directly)]

Same problem with the File button, and the right-click move-to function.  Makes
finding the destination folder hard with a big list, especially one that has to
scroll off-screen.

Comment 3

[Keyser Sose]

*** Bug 80310 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Ninoschka Baca]

*** Bug 82417 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[David A. Cobb]

Applies to ALL dropdown folder lists (not only IMAP), e.g. the Move-to control.
They aren't in the order created.  I initially created an alphabetical list of 
superfolders (_A_, _B_, etc) created in order.  When I added second-level 
folders under them the folders moved to the top of the dropdown.

Comment 6

[Dimitrios]

*** Bug 115268 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Dimitrios]

Build 2002011703, Win98. Created some subffolders in "Local folders". They are
sorted appropriately. So, Are we still seeing this bug? I suspect the fix for
bug 112301 might also fixed this one.

Comment 8

[wtcorrea]

Yes, I'm using build 2001122617, and the problem is still there.

Comment 9

[Curtis Knight]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030102

My listing is alphabetic (case-insensitive) after system folders.

=====
Unsent Messages
Drafts
Templates
Sent
Trash
then created folders case-insensitive alphabetic
=====

Should the system required folders be in this order ... I did not see any
reference for this order ... 

Comment 10

[David A. Cobb]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030103

Works4Me now, and has for quite a long time.

Comment 11

[Curtis Knight]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030327
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

My listing is alphabetic (case-insensitive) after system folders - if present.

=====
Inbox
Unsent Messages
Drafts
Templates
Sent
Trash
then created folders case-insensitive alphabetic
=====

Can we get this status to VERIFIED or RESOVLED ??? It seems that this issue
should be closed now.

Comment 12

[esther]

Using trunk build 20030325 on winxp, linux and macosx the list for my IMAP
folders (I have 70 of them) are alphabetical starting after the "special"
folders which is correct behavior. The default listing for Special folder is:
Inbox, Drafts, Templates, Sent, Junk, Trash. Which is what I see too.  My Local
folders are also listed alphabetically.  Tested Account Settings for Copies &
Folders and the pull-outs for Move and Copy under the menu item, and the File
button.  
wtcorrea do you see this in a more current build, if you don't have a more
current build?  This appears to be fixed now. 

Comment 13

[wtcorrea]

This bug has been fixed.  Thanks!

Comment 14

[esther]

Thanks for the quick response, verified.