592251 - Account Settings > Copies & Folders > Place a copy in doesn't show the whole path

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 451728

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[Martin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.2

In IMAP configuration, if I want to specify the folders for sent mail, drafts, templates and archives, I go to "Account Settings > IMAP > Copies & Folders > Place a copy in". Here I can specify a local or IMAP folder. After doing so, in earlier versions of Thunderbird, the whole path was specified, so e.g. I could see, if the chosen "Sent" folder was in local folders or on some IMAP server. Now only "Sent" is displed here! The whole path should be given again! Cheers. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set up IMAP account
2. go to "Account Settings > Copies & Folders > Place a copy in"
3. choose eg. "Other: Local Folders > Sent"
4. Look at display of current folder
Actual Results:  
"Sent" 

Expected Results:  
"Local Folders > Sent"

I believe that up to Thunderbird 3.0 the path was correctly displayed!

Comment 2

[rsx11m]

This is not restricted to IMAP accounts; you can also have POP accounts which aren't using the Global Inbox, thus maintain their own sets of folders.

I've modified the summary respectively and removed the caps, cross-platform.