[Users] [Bug 3431] New: MH folders not being created when IMAP account is added first to a new installation

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 29 May 2015 16:45:36 +0000, noreply at thewildbeast.co.uk wrote:

> http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3431
> 
>             Bug ID: 3431
>            Summary: MH folders not being created when IMAP account is
>                     added first to a new installation

> http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=1510&action=edit
> Claws Mail screen showing four accounts (3 IMAP, 1 POP3, at lower right of
> window) and no Mailbox MH folders shown.
> 
> This was originally reported to Fedora at 
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1225676 
> 
> but I think this should have been reported here.

The reason I pointed at this mailing-list is that very often it is more
productive to analyze a problem with the help of the users on this list
_prior_ to deciding whether/where to open a bug report.

As I cannot reproduce the issue with GNOME Shell, and since several basic
trouble-shooting questions are still unanswered, meanwhile I've downloaded
and tried the Fedora MATE Live Spin, booted from an USB stick.

I cannot reproduce the issue with MATE either.

So, more questions about reproducibility:

1) Can you reduce your test-case to 1 IMAP account + 1 POP3 account?
Or does it need to be 3 IMAP accounts?

2) Is the problem reproducible for you when running another desktop
environment? Such as a simple window manager like "Window Maker" or
"Openbox"? With MATE it should be possible to install package "WindowMaker"
then log out, log into a Window Maker session and try to reproduce the
problem there.

3) Could you think of anything special with regard to your IMAP accounts?
Is the problem reproducible if you add a dummy IMAP account? That is
enter only missing server names 'localhost' and a user/password that need
not exist.

> With Fedora (21), the MATE desktop installs Claws Mail as the default e-mail
> program. I discovered that when adding an IMAP account first, to a new
> installation, then adding a POP3 account afterwards, the Mailbox (MH) folders
> do not appear in the folder tree. If the POP3 account is added first, before
> any other account, MH appears correctly.

Here the MH folders appear immediately.