Closed Bug 109605 Opened 23 years ago Closed 23 years ago

Message headers not displayed upon receiving new mail

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
MailNews: Message Display
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED FIXED

People

(Reporter: hinayani, Assigned: mscott)

References

Details

(Keywords: regression) 

Build: 2001110921 (Linux)

When you have "View - message headers" set to normal, and you start the mail
client, all fields (From, Date, To, Subject) are shown. Upon receiving new mail,
the fields "Subject" and "To" are not shown (mostly replaced by an asterix "*").
This is the case for all messages (even from other mail accounts) even after
selecting other messages at random.
When you set "View - message headers - all" the problem stil persists. Setting
"View - message headers - normal" after that, all headers but the date are shown
once again.

When your message headers are set to "all", and you receive new mail, only the
"to" field is missing. But if you click the arrow next to this field to expand
the list, the e-mail address(es) is/are shown. Setting view to normal corrects
the listing.

The problem arose first in the build of November 9, AFAIK. So, it's definitely a
recent regression.

I couldn't find this bug anywhere, except bug #108579 that also involves some
display errors in the mailnews section, although I do not think it has the same
cause.
Keywords: regression
109624 may be the same.

I see this on linux CVS as well, in particular when having read newsgroups and
changing back to a mail account:

The first header in normal view randomly becomes "Subject: *" and the last
header "Newsgroups: * " (instead of "To: dark@c2i.net")
resolving as new - saw this mentioned in the newsgroup also
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
*** Bug 109705 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I had this, but upgrading to 2001-11-11 seems to have fixed it so far.

Gerv
message display over to mscott
Assignee: sspitzer → mscott
Just downloaded 20011111 Linux build.

The bug has not disappeared for me. However, it has become more difficult to
duplicate the problem, or so it seems.
Did some more research, and while checking some newsgroups, the headers
'subject' and 'newsgroups' displayed '*' instead of the correct values.
When I switched back to my e-mail account, the 'newsgroups' header was still
displayed where it should be 'to'.

I did not succeed yet in duplication of this behaviour.
bug 109985 and bug 110070 may be dups of this
Keywords: mozilla0.9.7, nsbeta1
OS: Linux → All
Hardware: PC → All
this looks like a dup of 109605

i'm still having the problem with nov 13 build. it goes away after
restarting the browser but comes back after a while. not sure what
triggers it.
arrgh. i meant to say that this looks like bug 107253


This seems to be related to bug 109624 and bug 109950 as well. It is still a
problem with build 0.9.6 on Solaris.
Both bugs seem related...

With a Linux 0.9.6 build (20011123) the problem seems to have disappeared...
I did not experience any more problems with other builds, and no other comments
have come in. So, marking this bug as fixed
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Marking verified worksforme based on reporter's last comment
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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