84385 - IMAP folder properties need to be set up again for the same account

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(MailNews Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[marina]

**** observed with 2001-06-06 build ****
Steps to reproduce:
- install the build on a different system ( or OS);
- create a new  profile;
- set up an IMAP  mail account that was already in use , e.g : [e-mail]
- select a folder that already had an encoding assigned to it ( say iso-2022-jp)
go View|Folder encoding;
//note: you have to set it up again because it went back to the default (
ISO-8859-1)

Comment 1

[nhottanscp]

So is this IMAP only, not seen for local folders?

Comment 2

[marina]

my undersanding is that we can port only IMAP folders , POP is saved locally so
i can not loggin into POP server from another machine and get all folders
created with this account. It could be ( and probably is) true for NNTP server
but this could not be tested yet because of the bug ( i forgot the number): nntp
settings ( e.g newsgroups you are subscribed to) can not be migrated, you have
to subscribe again with the same account. So the answer is IMAP only ( possibly
NNTP as well)

Comment 3

[marina]

qa contact to myself

Comment 4

[nhottanscp]

Folder charset is stored only locally. This is also true for 4.x.
Folder charset is a client only feature. It is not a part of the protocol. The
server does not know anything about a folder charset.
It is invalid (or cannot fix?).

Comment 5

[marina]

we won't fix it or it is not possible to fix it? because it would be very useful
to have it: you won't need to re-set your folder charset to view headers
correctly. could that be a future?

Comment 6

[nhottanscp]

I think that is RFE for IMAP protocol, not a mozilla bug.

Comment 7

[marina]

all right, since this is not a mozilla bug , i'll verify it as invalid