63039 - IMAP subscribe UI needs to unescape folder names on servers whose hiearchy delimiter is not '/'

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Networking: IMAP, defect)

Description

[David :Bienvenu]

I've changed the way we handle folder names on servers whose hiearchy delimiter
is not '/': if there's a slash in the name, I replace it with '^', and I replace
'^' with '^^'. Then, when sending the name to the server, I replace '^' with '/'
and "^^" with '^' - this is done by nsImapUrl::EscapeSlashes and
nsImapUrl::UnescapeSlashes. It looks like the IMAP subscribe UI is displaying
the escaped name, and not the pretty name for folders. I need to figure out what
its doing and fix it.

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

accepting

Comment 2

[David :Bienvenu]

Cavin has become expert in this code :-)

Comment 3

[Cavin Song]

Just a note for later (while I can still member):

OK, we show "a^b" in the subscribe dialog (where in folder pane we show "a/b". 
But if we were to change the code to ask the front-end UI to display it as "a/b" 
then it'll end up showing folder "a" with a sub-folder called "b" (ie, there 
will be a twister associated with "a"). I think this is the way the front-end 
figures out the folder hierarchy and it means that we probably can't pass "a/b" 
to front-end either.

Comment 4

[Karen Huang]

Cavin, please see bug 29926 the last comments that I put.

Comment 5

[Karen Huang]

Cavin, do you think that this is fixed along with the fix from bug 94305?

Comment 6

[Cavin Song]

No, Karen, I think this is a separate problem.

Comment 7

[:aceman]

Is this still relevant?
Does anybody know of such a server to test?

Comment 8

[gene smith]

I have a test account that, IIRC, has dot (.) as the delimiter, not slash (/). But if the user wanted to make a folder with / in the name, I guess it's possible but unusual. I would vote to just ignore this unless someone actually complains.