backup mail in cdrom is unreadable

[Guillermo Molleda]

Binary package hint: thunderbird

1) Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron
2) Thunderbird 2.0.0.22

3) What you expected to happen: To Final message

4) What happened instead

Thunderbird need the MAIL folder writable, then if I copy my old mail (burn backup) in a CDROM is impossible read it.

I never delete my messages, a day in year I doing a backup:

1) Close thunderbird
2) burn to CDROM or DVD-ROM the all folders in ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/XXXXXXX.default/Mail/AAA.com
3) Open thunderbird
4) I remove all messages in my folders since Thunderbird.
5) I can receive new messages and all OK, but...
6) I create a new account in my Thunderbird, and I change the folder mail to /media/cdrom/..../Mail/AAA.com

7) Apply changes, close Thunderbird, open thunderbird but the folder is blank

If I copy the Mail folder to other hard-disk place, and change all permission to Read-Write, then all is OK and I can view messages.

The problem is that never I can to do a backup, I need have all messages in hard-disk if I want read it.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Aug 17 17:19:06 2009
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal
Package: mozilla-thunderbird None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/mozilla-thunderbird.list]
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: thunderbird
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-24-generic i686

[Chrispetersen (chrispetersen)]

Created an attachment (id=8016)
A test case containing a image and a center aligned table.

[Yoel (yoel)]

Assigning to component owner for proper triage of feature request

[Bienvenu (bienvenu)]

not going to happen.

[Selmer (selmer)]

Help Wanted.

[Guillermo Molleda (gmolleda)]

Binary package hint: thunderbird

1) Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron
2) Thunderbird 2.0.0.22

3) What you expected to happen: To Final message

4) What happened instead

Thunderbird need the MAIL folder writable, then if I copy my old mail (burn backup) in a CDROM is impossible read it.

I never delete my messages, a day in year I doing a backup:

1) Close thunderbird
2) burn to CDROM or DVD-ROM the all folders in ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/XXXXXXX.default/Mail/AAA.com
3) Open thunderbird
4) I remove all messages in my folders since Thunderbird.
5) I can receive new messages and all OK, but...
6) I create a new account in my Thunderbird, and I change the folder mail to /media/cdrom/..../Mail/AAA.com

7) Apply changes, close Thunderbird, open thunderbird but the folder is blank

If I copy the Mail folder to other hard-disk place, and change all permission to Read-Write, then all is OK and I can view messages.

The problem is that never I can to do a backup, I need have all messages in hard-disk if I want read it.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Aug 17 17:19:06 2009
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal
Package: mozilla-thunderbird None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/mozilla-thunderbird.list]
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: thunderbird
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-24-generic i686

[Mozilla-bugs-micahscomputing (mozilla-bugs-micahscomputing)]

*** Bug 364978 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software.
I'm going to mark it as Triaged and wait for upstream to work on this. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better! Please report any other issues you may find.

[Joshua Cranmer (jcranmer)]

The summary of this bug improperly conveys what is intended, I think.

[Vseerror (vseerror)]

*** Bug 97830 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Vseerror (vseerror)]

related is Bug 221714 - Mails invisible when .msf-file is read only