nsIMsgIncomingServer should automatically set local path based on the current profile, host name (and maybe user name?). In addition, Get/SetLocalPath should take an nsIFileSpec * rather than a char *. Another option if this is not desirable would be to add a method to nsIMsgIncomingServer to create a default local path. Currently, everyone creating a nsIMsgIncoming server has to duplicate the same code to get the profile directory, append Mail/{host name} and then call SetLocalPath.

Can we mark this M10?

this is probably something that each type of server needs to override for itself when the hostname gets set.

We're going to have to implement this on a per-protocol basis: - Local Mail should default to the 4.x local mail directory ($HOME/nsmail or $PROFILE/Mail) - IMAP should default to $HOME/ns_imap/<hostname> or $PROFILE/ImapMail/<hostname>) - News should default to $PROFILE/xover-cache/<hostname> or $HOME/News/<hostname> (that's for unix and Windows, I dunno about Mac)

Bulk move mail/news M10 bugs to M11

Seth pointed out that some of these defaults come from 4.x: IMAP: mail.imap.root_dir News: news.directory POP: mail.directory What I'm going to do is create three new prefs: mail.root.<type> where type is the 5.x type {imap, pop3, nntp} and the 4.x prefs should migrate from there.

just noticed seth was doing some work on this, might be interested to see progress on this bug.

correction / clarification: - pop should default $PROFILE/Mail/<hostname> - IMAP should default to $PROFILE/ImapMail/<hostname> - News should default to $PROFILE/News/<hostname> this is for all three platforms. I'm going to do the work to migration the 4.x prefs (mail.imap.root_dir, news.directory, mail.directory) to the mail.root.<type> pref.

a slight twist that is related: nsINntpIncomingServer::SetNewsrcFilePath() needs a default. logged a bug for this. see #13306

the work to migrate the 4.x prefs is being tracked in bug #13305 since this bug depends on 13305, marking it at so.

ok, this now falls back to pref("imap.server.<type>")/hostname if imap.server.<type> is not set, we have other problems. I'm working on that now.

The current prefs.js uses the following: user_pref("mail.root.imap", "D:\\mozilla\\dist\\Users50\\mozProfile\\ImapMail"); user_pref("mail.root.none", "D:\\mozilla\\dist\\Users50\\mozProfile\\Mail"); user_pref("mail.root.pop3", "D:\\mozilla\\dist\\Users50\\mozProfile\\Mail"); This resolves the problem. VERIFIED after confirming with Alec