99030 - Mozilla Mail profiles are platform-dependent

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 12911

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect)

Description

[David L. Reuthinger Jr.]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.3+) Gecko/20010907
BuildID:    2001090703

Mozilla Mail stores OS-specific paths to profile data files within user
profiles.  It is therefore not possible to, for example, use SMB to access a
Mozilla profile on a Linux machine from a Windows box.

With the aim of Mozilla Mail being to create a cross-platform mail client, this
limitation should be eliminated.  Can't Mozilla just store a  relative path
instead of an absolute one?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set up a Windows and Linux box.  Run Samba on the Linux box and set up an SMB
share to ~you/.mozilla

2. Run mozilla -profilemanager on the Windows box.  Tell Mozilla to look in your
Linux box's share for your new profile data.

3. Run Mozilla and start Mail on the Windows box.

Actual Results:  You can see your Mail accounts, but the messages do not appear
in them, because Mozilla is trying to look in "C:\windows\mozilla\profiles\you"
even though you're on a Linux box! :)

Expected Results:  Mozilla should load the messages as well as the account and
server names, of course...

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Duplicate of "Use relative pathnames for profile directories and
profile-relative data"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 12911 ***

Comment 2

[Ninoschka Baca]

Verified Duplicate.