991492 - Localization problem with IMAP folder "Sent Items"

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, defect)

Description

[handycommander]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 2013032900

Steps to reproduce:

If i sync my IMAP account, then i get the IMAP folder "Sent Items" from the server. As i'm using a german Thunderbird version the String is not translated. The folder has the right, "sent" icon, so thunderbird will recognize...
Is there any way to rename the folder to "Gesendet" as it should expected? I tried it with sent_folder_name but without any affect.

Comment 1

[:aceman]

I am not sure we can randomly show different folder names than what the server sent.
Why is the server sending an English name?
We do translate some local folders (for POP3 and similar), e.g. we store the folder as "Sent" on disk, but would show it translated according to TB language version. But I am not sure we do that for IMAP.
Can you try renaming the folder on server to "Sent" ?

Comment 2

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

iirc we can only translate it with accuracy if the server supports a particular imap extension (other folders we guess at). I think its X-List or something like that. We've had bugs on it in the past.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

one of these https://mzl.la/2mTjwyT ?

Comment 4

[:aceman]

I don't know. Some of the XLIST bugs I read looked like there would be a way for the server to indicate which folders are special. So if we received the info that Sent Items is the special Sent folder, we could match them and show translated.