219968 - Occassionally, a message that is selected to be displayed fails to be displayed, either in the lower pane or in a new window. This is resolved by closing Mozilla, reopening it, and relogging in.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Ben Rosenau]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827

I have multiple accounts logged in at once whenever this happens, however, as I
ALWAYS have multiple accounts logged in, I don't know if this problem is unique
to that or not.  The message always will display fine after restarting as
described in the summary.  Often, one or more messages will be "broken" but
everything else is fine.  What IS displayed in the bottom right pane is whatever
was beforehand, either another message or the opening screen for down there.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Log in to my e-mail accounts.
2. View an inbox.
3. Click on a message and wait for it to come up (or not) in the bottom right
pane, or double-click the message and wait for the new window that comes up to
display (or not) the message.
Actual Results:  
As above.

Expected Results:  
Shown the message text.

Comment 1

[Patrick]

Sound like a corrupted inbox.msf.

Is your mail server an imap server? If so, you can try the steps from bug 216081
comment 1.

[the issue described there is a different one, but yours may have the same cause]

Comment 2

[Ben Rosenau]

Patrick,

Thanks for the idea.  I did as you suggested late yesterday afternoon, and this
morning the problem has recurred, so I don't think that was it, though.  

Also, I should add that, at least in recent memory now that I think about it,
the problem has only occurred with the second of the 2 accounts I have
configured in the e-mail client.

Ben

Comment 3

[Ben Rosenau]

The bug persists in RC2, as I've now discovered.

Comment 4

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