81741 - Folder settings for news contains garbage chars after IMAP migration

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Profile Migration, defect, P1)

Description

[Cavin Song]

Created an IMAP account in 4.x and then migrated it to 6.x. After the migration, 
the draft and template folders for the news contain garbage chars like the 
following in prefs.js (lines are too long so the are folded):

  user_pref("mail.identity.id2.draft_folder",
            "mailbox://nobody@Local Folders/§");
  user_pref("mail.identity.id2.stationery_folder",
            "mailbox://nobody@Local Folders/нннннa");

You can see the garbage chars in the Copies and Folders dialog (from Edit | 
Mail/News Account Settings... menu item).

Comment 1

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

moving to 0.9.1, 0.9 is passed.

cavin and I have discussed this, and we should be able to fix the problem.

we'll fix this after the fix for #66018 lands.

Comment 2

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

cavin, can you attach your 4.x prefs file that when converted cause this 
problem?

Comment 3

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

fixed.

Comment 4

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

to elaborate, we removed some code that led to the garbage problem in certain
cases.  in those cases, the uri should be the default uri, something like
"mailbox://nobody@Local Folders/Sent"

but there are still some bugs with the uri conversion.  I'll log a bug on the
ones we're aware of tomorrow.

Comment 5

[Grace Bush]

verified build 2001052506