253102 - downloading of truncated mail breaks if I do other action

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 168330

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[£ukasz Mach]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040623
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (20040223)

Downloading of truncated email, for example email with huge attachment, stops if
I see other mail, etc...

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set up maximum email size to few kb in preferences
2. Send to your POP3 account email with huge (4MB for example) attachment
3 [review]. After the email arrives, click on download rest of the email (in "Truncated"
frame)
4. While downloading, click on other message in your mailbox to read it. 


Actual Results:  
Previous message stops downloading

Expected Results:  
Message should keep downloading.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[zug_treno]

See also Suite bug 168330.

Comment 5

[Mitra Ardron]

I'd like to confirm this bug - I was just going to report it myself. 

Its annoying, especially if you are on a slower internet connection (e.g. shared in a cafe) and want to read the next message while waiting for the Truncated one to download. 

Comment 6

[Samir]

Ditto, I'm having the same problem.

Comment 7

[[e-mail]]

yep, This bug is still very much alive in TB 3.03

Comment 8

[Kuno Meyer]

If download in the background should not be possible (due to error handling, locking or whatever reasons), please provide at least a modal progress dialog that prevents the user from unintentionally switching the message pane and therefore implicitly aborting the download.

Comment 9

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

Following is copy of some comments in bug 168330.
(bug 168330 comment #2)
> I think there is a workaround here.
> When you want to see a big message, you can double click it in thread pane
> to bring it up in standalone message window. 
> Then you can preview other messages while that message is being downloaded.
> You can switch to that message window to see it when the download is finished.
(bug 168330 comment #3)
> Harry: the workaround you suggested works. Sort of...
> If I try to do this trick with more than one message downloading I'm back with a problem. 
> Only one tuncated message can be downloaded at a time.

"Open standalone window, click 'click here'" looks a workaround, although effective for single partially downloaded message only.

Comment 10

[tnyr]

I didn't find out this through a search and made <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=554160">this duplicate</a>.
So I add this just for better search results:
The text in a frame of the truncated e-mail is: "Truncated! This message exceeded the Maximum Message Size set in Account Settings, so we have only downloaded the first few lines from the mail server."
This text is defined by MIME_MSG_PARTIAL_FMT_1
and MIME_MSG_PARTIAL_FMT_2.

Comment 12

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

WADA, can you confirm this bug on recent builds?

Comment 13

[tnyr]

Thunderbird 12.0 : yes, the bug is still present

Comment 14

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

thanks tnyr for the confirmation.

There are two bugs that seem to describe the same problem.
Is it helpful to keep both of them?
Are Thunderbird developers still looking into "MailNews Core" bugs?

This bug is currently reported against
Thunderbird: Mail Window Frontend

Bug 168330 is reported against
MailNews Core: Networking

Perhaps mark this bug as a duplicate of bug 168330?

Comment 15

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

No objections to my comment 14 -> duping against core bug