From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020721 BuildID: 2002072104 Create a folder named "Receipts / Etc" the '/' is an invalid character, but the GUI does not perform any checking to see whether the character is valid or not. After the folder is created with the invalid name, it cannot be renamed, removed or have mail messages copied to it. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Create a folder with a '/' in it. Actual Results: It resulted in a folder being created which could not be renamed, moved, deleted or otherwise manipulated. There may be long term bad effects for a user's mail files because of the invalid object within it, which is why I classified this at a 'major' severity level. Expected Results: Either created a valid folder with a '/' in the name or returned an error dialog stating that a '/' is not a valid character for a folder name.

Confirmed on WinXP trunk build 2002080308. I wont mark this as NEW yet.. reporter: take a look at the dependencies for bug 124287.. I'm sure one of those covers your issue. If they do, please report back here. Thanks !

The closest match for this bug was bug 89986 ... but there are signifigant differences. In 89986 the JavaScript console reported errors, I do not get any error message after creating a folder with an '/' in it. When you add a folder containing '/' the dialog goes away and the folder appears to be created. You cannot perform any operations on it, however. What I didn't notice previously is that these invalid folders seem to disappear when the system is restarted. If you can confirm this, I think this is still a new bug.

bug 169642, bug 170038 and bug 181282 also mention this, and are resolved as duplicates of bug 140212. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 140212 ***

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