90683 - sub folders of inbox assumes uppercase INBOX

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 60344

(MailNews Core :: Networking: IMAP, defect)

Description

[Martin Sillence]

Select for sub folders of inbox assumes case of all uppercase i.e. INBOX.
Actual case for my subfolders is Inbox. This works in netscape 4.7.
Error message is select failed for mailbox INBOX/test
Manualy logging on to the imap server and doing a select does indeed fail for
this and a select Inbox/test reports OK.
Unselecting/selecting them using the subscribe feature makes no difference
though the case appears correct for the select dialogue.

Using washington university imap server 4.7c-1 on debian 2.2 and maildir format
mailboxes.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

Marking dup of bug 60344, which is about using the boxname as sent by the server
instead of "INBOX". (imap)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 60344 ***

Comment 2

[Karen Huang]

Verified as dup.

Comment 3

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

I think this is not a duplicate of 60344. 60344 is about cosmetic stuff,
displaying to the user the special folder "INBOX". This bug is about accessing
folders that are subfolders of a folder named "inbox", "INBOX", "Inbox",
"iNBoX", ...

Here is the precise situation where I hit this bug:

I'm using UW IMAPD, in "no folders containing both messages and subfolders"
mode. The user has both an INBOX (the special magic folder, containing messages)
and a folder called "Inbox", that contains subfolders, e.g. "foo". In the
mailboxes pane, foo is shown as a subfolder of INBOX instead of as a subfolder
of a separate folder "Inbox". When trying to access this "foo" subfolder,
Mozilla Mail tries to access "INBOX/foo" instead of "Inbox/foo". The former
doesn't exist and thus the operation fails.

As a conclusion, please re-open (and fix ;) ) this bug.