817681 - folder creation fails for special windows file names "aux" and "con", but error isn't initially displayed to user

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect)

Description

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open mail folder tree
2.right click on folder and click "new subfolder"
3.Enter "Con" omit parenthesis and click OK

* local folders
- first click to create subfolder has no visible response, and no folder created on disk
- second click to create subfolder results in a dialog with "A folder with that name already exists", as if the folder had been created.

erratically, the error console willl have
Timestamp: 12/3/2012 12:40:21 PM
Error: Component returned failure code: 0x80550013 [nsIMsgFolder.createSubfolder]
Source File: chrome://messenger/content/folderPane.js
Line: 2012
 
* imap folder
- i get absolutely no feedback

Seems like the failed folder creation isn't propagated back up to the UI.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

in the imap case, activity manager has ...

The current command on 'aux' did not succeed. The mail server ... responded: Can't get the status ... no such mailbox

Comment 2

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

It looks that bug 312265 has been changed to this bug.

Comment 4

[:aceman]

Interesting. We should report this failure to the user properly. There may be various reasons why a folder wasn't created.
We also excluded the special 'aux', 'con' and similar "filenames" to be the target of the profile folder. And we report those invalid paths, in bug 577775.