102845 - Period at end of received text mail messages

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 97912

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Andy Ruddock]

All received mail messages which are "text only" have a period on a seperate
line at the end of the text.
This happens only with "text only" messages.

For example, end of text message received as response from listserv:

Summary of resource utilization
-------------------------------
 CPU time:        0.000 sec
 Overhead CPU:    0.000 sec
 CPU model:         AlphaServer XP1000 6/500 (1024M)
 Job origin:      [e-mail]

.  <--- This is the period I'm talking about

I'm not sure if this is related to bugs 47606, 67361 and 67971.

Currently running Mozilla build ID 2001100203 on Win98 SE.

I've just had a look at the "Inbox" file at a MultiPart email message, which
looks like:

MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; 
	boundary="----=_NextPart_84815C5ABAF209EF376268C8"
Return-Path: [e-mail]
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Aug 2001 22:17:45.0203 (UTC) FILETIME=[F1598430:01C1250E]
X-RCPT-TO: <[e-mail]>
X-UIDL: 291758233
Status: U

------=_NextPart_84815C5ABAF209EF376268C8
Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"

(text of mail)

------=_NextPart_84815C5ABAF209EF376268C8
Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII"

(html version of mail)
------=_NextPart_84815C5ABAF209EF376268C8--


. <--- Looks like it's here as well

Maybe it's just because the html rendering removes the period?

Comment 1

[Justin Kerk]

Hmm...IIRC, in the SMTP protocol, a period on a line by itself signifies the end
of a message (if such a period by itself is part of the message, two periods are
used, if two are in the message, three are used, etc.). Perhaps this isn't being
stripped correctly?

Comment 2

[Keyser Sose]

Marking these all WORKSFORME sorry about lack of response but were very
overloaded here. Only reopen the bug if you can reproduce with the following steps:

1) Download the latest nightly (or 0.9.6 which should be out RSN)
2) Create a new profile
3) test the bug again

If it still occurs go ahead and reopen the bug. Again sorry about no response
were quite overloaded here and understaffed.

Comment 3

[Jonas Jørgensen]

I can reproduce with those exact steps - build 2001112803, win2k-sp2. If I
create 2 POP3 accounts, this only happens for the first one. Changing severity
to normal - it's more than a minor annoyance to cut a period of the quoted text
of every message you reply to.

Comment 4

[Jonas Jørgensen]

Changing bug status to NEW.

Comment 5

[Jonas Jørgensen]

user_pref("mail.server.default.dot_fix", false); seems to fix this...

Comment 6

[R.K.Aa.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 97912 ***

Comment 7

[Jonas Jørgensen]

Verified.