1204740 - Adding approved: header cleaned up all headers

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1180209

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Shin Yamasaki]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/40.0
Build ID: 20150826023504

Steps to reproduce:

In the version 38.2.0, I added approved: header within the compose window into a message then sent.  This is a part of workflow supported by a server.


Actual results:

All headers are cleared out and cannot send mail anywhere.

To make it work, I had to downgrade to 31.7.0.


Expected results:

When I add an arbitrary header, I can send mail without changing headers.

Comment 1

[:aceman]

How do you add that header? Please specify the steps so we can reproduce it.

Comment 2

[Shin Yamasaki]

In about:config, I added the value "Approved" in mail.compose.other.header

Then in a composer window, I select Approved: header from the drop-down menu which has To:, Cc:, Bcc:, and Reply-To: then type the value of a password required in the server-side.  Then I click "Send" button to send mail.

Comment 3

[:aceman]

I assume you also have a To: header so that the mail can be sent. I have tried it (both To: and Approved:) and yes, both headers are cleared but the message is "sent", e.g. stored in Outbox, if I click Send later.

While sending this message I get an error in Error console:
Error: TypeError: invalid 'in' operand addr
Source File: resource:///modules/jsmime.jsm -> resource:///modules/jsmime/jsmime.js
Line: 3068

That one looks relevant.
The line is
 if ("email" in addr)

For the Approved header, the "addr" variable contains a string (the value of the header) and is not an object. Jcranmer, is this something for you?

Comment 4

[Shin Yamasaki]

Certainly, I also entered To: and Cc: in the composer pane.  Since the mail server received the mail, the To: header seems to be alive but no To: header appears in the message in Outbox.