89986 - problems with adding or renaming a local folder named "a/b", console error and rename dialog doesn't go away

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 140212

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

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

I'm unable to add a new local folder named "a/b", console error and the new
folder dialog doesn't go away.

I can rename an existing local folder to "a/b" but it doesn't really work.
the UI shows "a/b", but on disk it is still the old folder name.

on restart, it is back to the old folder name.

here's the error I get on the console when I try to add "a/b"

JavaScript error: 
 line 0: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code:
0x8055000c [nsIRDFCompositeDataSource.DoCommand]"  nsresult: "0x8055000c
(<unknown>)"  location: "JS frame :: chrome://messenger/content/mailCommands.js
:: DoRDFCommand :: line 50"  data: no]


cavin and I have a theory involving uri parsing.

escape("a/b") is still "a/b"

so our uri for "a/b" is mailbox://user@host/a/b and that probably fails
somewhere when parsing.

"/" should be part of the illegal characters (on all platforms) in
NS_MsgHashIfNecessary().  So when we see "a/b", we should be hashing that to
some other value and storing the pretty name in the folder cache.

see cavin's fix for 41944.

we should investigate this bug after 41944

Comment 1

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

marking 4xp because 4.x windows allowed "a/b"

4.x linux didn't, but it behaved poorly.

not sure about 4.x mac.

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 225143 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Peter Kroll]

we just got a new duplicate of this bug and this is the type of bug that can
frustrate a user into not using Mozilla Mail anymore. 
I'm suggesting that we block for 1.6

Comment 4

[Alfonso Martinez]

*** Bug 225567 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

To comment 1(In reply to comment #1)
> marking 4xp because 4.x windows allowed "a/b"

Why it should be allowed under windows? Try to create a folder "a/b" with the
explorer and you will see that's not possible.

Within bug 225567 we have some additionally informations... At the moment it's
possible to rename a folder "test" to "a/b" but we will lose access until
Mozilla is restarted. If i create a folder "test" before the restart then I have
two folders with the same name afterwards, because "a/b" is renamed back to
"test" after the restart.

Comment 6

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

*** Bug 238742 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

*** Bug 230961 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 140212 ***

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 140212 ***

Comment 9

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

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