315446 - "Get Mail" button won't retrieve mail from POP3 server (status bar stuck on "Looking up <servername") when a message with empty Subject and empty body is in the mailbox

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Stephen Adkins]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird, version 1.0.2 (20050317)

I use Thunderbird 1.0.2 on WinXP to retrieve my email from our pop3 server at work.
It normally works fine.  However, I found that there were occasions when I would not receive mail for a while.  When I hit the "Get Mail" button, the "Looking up <servername>" message is stuck in the status bar.  The progress bar in the lower right keeps going until the operation times out (about 2 or 3 mins.).
I then use a webmail alternative to look at the mail on my POP3 server, and I
see that there is a spam message with no Subject and no Data.  There are also many other messages which have not been downloaded to Thunderbird.  I delete the empty message, then return to Thunderbird.  When I hit "Get Mail", 

Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce

Steps to Reproduce:
1.log in to unix command line
2.mail sadkins@therubicongroup (no subject, no data)
3.

Actual Results:  
It comes through OK.

Expected Results:  
I expected it to get stuck.
So I copied the raw message down below.
Maybe the problem is the Message-Id with the opening angle bracket "<" but no close ?!?
All I know is that I have received at least 5 such spam messages like this over the last 4 months and that it makes an alternative the Thunderbird a necessity (i.e. a webmail alternative).

Here is a copy of the raw email that clogged up my inbox.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Return-Path: <[e-mail]>
Delivered-To: [e-mail]
Received: (qmail 19822 invoked from network); 6 Nov 2005 23:55:42 -0500
Received: from unknown (HELO SKY) (220.180.128.22)
     by mail.therubicongroup.com with SMTP; 6 Nov 2005 23:55:42 -0500
Received: (from apache@)
     by ..com (0.13.0/8.12.9/Submit) id j31CkQBj079521;
     Mon, 07 Nov 2005 09:46:39 +0500
Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 22:47:39 -0600
Message-Id: <9[3
    
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Comment 1

[Ray Booysen]

Reporter, would it be possible to try the 1.5 branch or the trunk.  1.0.2 is quite old and not a solid base for bug reporting.

Thanks!

Comment 2

[Alexis Wilke]

I found a problem with XMailServer 1.22; it generates a problem similar to this one. The POP3 server will send files even if these are not terminated with the \r\n sequence. The result is that it will look like it blocks at the end. Thought the POP3 server is ready to send another email, to you it will look like it is just sitting there since you cannot see the lone closing '.'. This could have been a similar problem because many junk emails are broken...

Comment 3

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

Reporter, does the issue still occur in the latest supported 2.0.0.x / Shredder trunk nightlies?

(1.5.0.x is now end-of-life and the latest supported 2.0.0.x is 2.0.0.16)

Comment 4

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

RESO INCO due to lack of response to last comment. If you feel this change was made in error, please respond to this bug with your reasons why.