Open Bug 29581 Opened 25 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Can't create imap folder with '>' in the name

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect, P5)

x86
Windows NT

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Future

People

(Reporter: huang, Unassigned)

Details

Used 02-28-08-M15 commercial build: Users should be able to create ">" on Netscape Messaging Server. 1) Tried to created ">" folder. 2) Actual Results: Error displayed: "The current command did not succeed, the mail server responded: Invalid mailbox name" on 5.0 Expected results: Should display this folder name successfully on 5.0 without error.
This bug is related to bug#20324... change QA contact to me.
QA Contact: lchiang → huang
Summary: users should be able to create ">" on Netscape Messaging Server → Users should be able to create ">" on Netscape Messaging Server
This is probably related to bug 22474, which is showing the truncation of a ">" character.
-> bienvenu
Assignee: phil → bienvenu
No, it's just that we're escaping the new folder name when we create the url, but not unescaping it when we pull it out of the url. I'm not sure if the fix is to not escape the folder name at all, or to unescape when we pull it out.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Actually, I take it back. '>' is used internally as the IMAP_URL_TOKEN_SEPARATOR. I.e, when we create an imap url, we use the '>' character to separate parts of the url. So when we're parsing the url, we get confused by '>' as part of a folder name. 4.5 has this same problem, as near as I can tell, but no one has noticed, as far as I can tell.
Target Milestone: M20
Blocks: 20324
karen - can you confirm that 4.x has the same problem? Thanks.
adding mail3 keyword
Keywords: mail3
changing priorities
Priority: P3 → P2
marking nsbeta1- due to fact it doesn't affect many users.
Keywords: nsbeta1-
Target Milestone: --- → Future
Does the "Netscape Messaging Server" still exists?
server products don't go away just because their vendors do. that said this server probably migrated via iplanet to sun(one).
Product: MailNews → Core
No longer blocks: 20324
QA Contact: huang → backend
Product: Core → MailNews Core
Keywords: mail3
Summary: Users should be able to create ">" on Netscape Messaging Server → Can't create imap folder with '>' in the name
Assignee: bienvenu → nobody
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
Not using Netscape Messaging Server, but still reproduced (fails silently, OVH server). Thunderbird 52.1.1 (32-bit) Windows 7 64-bit
Priority: P2 → P5
Severity: normal → S3
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