837667 - Mail (sub)folders with names containing a dot (".") are not recognised / can't be created while copying a folder tree

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, defect)

Description

[Roelof Berkepeis]

Attachment: folder copy error, name contained a dot

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0
Build ID: 20130117042419

Steps to reproduce:

dragging a whole folder (tree) from one account to another in the folder list, and dropping it on the other account name


Actual results:

the dropping auto-created the folder at the other account and started creating all the subfolders and copying their messages.  This process stopped when a subfolder name was encountered containg a dot (".") .. a certain error message in the status bar appeared, like "can't create folder xx" or "folder xx doesn't exist" - i don't remember ..
Instead, a subsubfolder was created, which name was the part after the dot .. see attachment screenshots.


Expected results:

the copy process should end normally : a subfolder name containing a dot (".") should be legal.

Comment 1

[Roelof Berkepeis]

Comment on attachment 709703 [details]
folder copy error, name contained a dot

folder copy error, name contained a dot : "LauchPad.Net" was the name of the original folder, but during the copy process something else happened (see image) and the copy process stopped ..

Comment 2

[David Bolter [:davidb] (NeedInfo me for attention)]

Roelof did you mean to mark this bug security sensitive? Did you need to keep the screenshot private?

Comment 3

[Roelof Berkepeis]

(In reply to David Bolter [:davidb] from comment #2)
> Roelof did you mean to mark this bug security sensitive? Did you need to
> keep the screenshot private?

The screenshot doesn't need to be private.  This bug might be security sensitive, i don't know .. that's why i marked it like that ..

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

not sec sensitive