2 bugs concerning the email snooze feature (especially for non-English speakers)

[Jerome-Herbinet]

Steps to reproduce

First problem : When I snooze an email, the specific folder created is called “snoozed” (and not “Mis en attente” in French in my case). I checked on Transifex in order to translate this, but the string does not exist.

Second problem : To deal with this problem, I decided to rename the folder. After renaming “Snoozed” to “Mis en attente,” snoozing other emails no longer works (the system can no longer find the folder and therefore cannot snooze other emails).

Expected behavior

Related to the first problem : When the folder is created, it should be named by default with the translated wording.

Related to the second problem : Even after renaming, the snooze functionality should still work, or else you must prevent this folder from being renamed.

Actual behavior

Please read "Steps to reproduce".

Mail app version

Tested on 5.6.7 (personnal use) and 5.6.9 (professionnal use)

Nextcloud version

Tested on 31.0.10 (personnal use) and 32.0.5 (professionnal use)

Mailserver or service

On IONOS servers (personnal use), and on my employer's private server

Operating system

N/A

PHP engine version

PHP 8.3

Nextcloud memory caching

N/A

Web server

Nginx

Database

MariaDB

Additional info

No response

[kesselb]

Thanks for your report 🙏

Good finding.

If we translate the mailbox name, then we need a list of all possible translations to detect that mailbox again. I'm afraid, that isn't a viable solution. Storing additional metadata to the folder isn't supported IMAP-wise. We could flag snoozed messages, but that isn't available on all IMAP servers either. So the only portable way, is using a folder with a stable name.

See similar issues in other repos:

• [Bug]: translated readme.md (for the folder) doesn't show when switching language text#5953
• fix: always use english name for recently contacted category server#54736

I'm not aware of a lock to prevent renaming a folder. You can always use another imap client to do so. What we could do is to show a different label when the mailbox is selected as snooze mailbox, but that also only works in mail and not other clients.