6406 - xxx.msf is being created for the news server folder, shouldn't be

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 6402

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect, P3)

Description

[esther]

Using builds 19990513 (May 13th and before), a .msf file is being created for
the news server folder, according to Seth it shouldn't be.

1. Launch Apprunner the first time (have a news account configured in prefs50.js
file)
2. Open Task|Messenger
3. Close Messenger and Apprunner
4. Go to the User directory for the account you just used and notice there is a
.msf file created for the News Server folder

Comment 1

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

marking target milestone m9.

adding mscott and putterman to cc list since they might have similar bugs for
localmail and imap.

Comment 2

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

not going to be fixed for m9.

slidding to m10.

Comment 3

[sol]

Probably needs to be fixed for PR1

Comment 4

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

re-assign to alecf.  this is a dup of one of his, and he says he'll fix this.

alecf: do pop, imap, and nntp servers have hostinfo.dat files?  if so, perhaps
we can use the server .msf files for that info.

Comment 5

[Alec Flett]

that's always possible, but the reason this file is being created in the first
place needs to be fixed.... for instance, it's creating a msf file
/u/alecf/nsmail.msf right next to the directory /u/alecf/nsmail, which is just
broken.

I don't have a fix in my tree, but I know exactly why this is happening.

I'm going to add a "isServer" attribute to folders for now, though this would be
solved even more efficiently with RDF resource factories :)

Comment 6

[Alec Flett]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 6402 ***

Comment 7

[lchiang]

mark verified as duplicate.