[imp] Bug creating sent mail folder

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Jeff Tucker <jefft@wciatl.com>:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm having a problem when creating a new sent mail folder as I'm creating
> 
> an identity.
> 
> My IMAP server is Courier IMAP. I have my folders set to '' and namespace
> = 
> 'INBOX.'. This has worked fine for everything until now. I'm using HEAD
> but 
> it has been a week or so since I synced with cvs.
> 
> Here are the steps I followed:
> 1. Create a new identity. While creating that identity, use its option to
> 
> create a new sent mail folder. Call it Sent-Test
> 2. IMP (Courier) creates a folder .Sent-Test inside my normal mail 
> directory. This is fine and consistent with how all my other folders are
> 
> stored. IMP notifies me that the folder has been created.
> 3. Now I compose and send a message with the new identity. IMP notifies
> me 
> again that a folder has been created.
> 4. Now, when I go look, I see a directory called ".INBOX.Sent-Test". IMP
> 
> has apparently requested the folder INBOX.Sent-Test be created.
> 
> I suspect that the auto-creation code in the identity options isn't 
> stripping the namespace correctly or something when it stores the sent
> mail 
> folder in the user's preferences. So, when the user actually sends an 
> email, IMP thinks the folder needs to be created and does so.

Can you verify this by looking at the identities entry in you prefs table? 
It should store all the folders without folder prefixes and namespaces.

Jan.

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