Closed Bug 15538 Opened 26 years ago Closed 26 years ago

New Mail with attachment(s) of 8K or more in size does not go out & hang the apprunner

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect, P3)

Product:
MailNews Core
Component:
Backend
Platform:
x86
Windows 98
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 14612

People

(Reporter: momoi, Assigned: mscott)

Details

** Observed with 10/3/99 Win32 M10 candidate build ** With this build, I am not able to to send mail when I try to attach a local page or locale pages. It does not seem to matter what kind of charsets the pages bear. When I finish composing mail and click on "send" button, the progress bar gets engaged and never seems to complete and the apprunner also freezes so that I need to quit by CTRL+C from the command line. I had thought that the attachment mail is working for M10. If so, we should fix this before M10 ships.
I'm experincing this problem under both the HTML and Plain Text send options.
May be related to http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14612. What is the size of your attachment?
I tried the following pages downloaded to my hard disk first: 1. http://home.netscape.com/ 2. http://home.netscape.com/fr 3. http://home.netscape.com/ja 4. http://home.netscape.com/ko The sizes range from 14K to 25K. These file sizes are too small to qualify for Bug 14612. Let me also add that under the same SMTP server settings, mail does go out if I don't attach a file. Here's part of the DOS window output for the failed send with attachment(s). ------------------------------------- .... .... .... AttachFile() SendMessage from XUL GenericSendMessage from XUL Identity = [nsIMsgIdentity: id1] attachments = file:///E|/tests/home_netscape_com.html There are 1 smtp servers ------------------------------------------------------ The last line is where the apprunner gets hung.
cc: pmock and esther and fenella. For our M10 testing, what type of attachments were you successful in sending? Thanks.
Summary: Mail with attachment(s) does not go out & hang the apprunner → Mail with HTML attachment(s) does not go out & hang the apprunner
Perhaps this has to do with my specific SMTP sever setting, but using the same mail server setting, the last build which I can use to send out attachments is: 9/17/99 Win32 M10 build. Note that Alec sent out a notice on 9/19/99 that the new SMTP server settings will take effect on that evening. I went on vacation on 9/18 and the next build I looked at is from 9/27/99 Win32 M11 build. This build does not let me send out mail with attachments and the same is true for all subsequent builds on my hard drive.. Note that in testing builds earlier than 9/19/99, I'm not using the new SMTP server settings. (I also threw away mozregistry.dat and started a new profile when going back to pre-9/19 builds). For builds later than 9/19/99, my profile still contains per mail account based mail server settings but they should not matter and new SMTP server settings should work after 9/19/99. For post 9/19/99 testing, I'm using the new SMTP settings. And they do work but only for mail without attachments. Am I missing something in the prefs settings? cc'ing alecf. Here's my prefs.js (with password/user_ids and such masked). http://rocknroll/users/momoi/publish/seamonkey/bugs/bug15538prefs.txt
It turns out that plain text file attachment does work. So take the http://home.netscape.com/ with 4.7 and save it as a plain text file, and atatch this to a 5.0 mail. It does work and apprunner does not get hung. However, as I mentioned above, the HTML version of the Home Page does hung the apprunner when it's atatched.
Summary: Mail with HTML attachment(s) does not go out & hang the apprunner → New Mail with HTML attachment(s) does not go out & hang the apprunner
your SMTP settings look correct in the above URL. I did not change the actual behavior of SMTP, only the location of the hostname in the prefs....
Assignee: phil → rhp
I think rhp hooked up HTML attachments. Rich, if this isn't right, pls reassign.
Severity: critical → blocker
I haven't heard anybody contradict this bug so far. I assume that HTML atatchment needs to work for M10 and on that basis will now raise the severity to M10 blocker status.
If M10 is waiting on ME fixing this bug, it will be a long wait. First of all, I have the tip pulled, not M10. Now, on the tip, I am having all sorts of problems with plain text compose, Ender in general, attachments don't work, etc, etc.... I have no idea what changed and I'm still trying to get some traction after returning from sabbatical. Phil, I could use some help here before I go postal. - rhp
Target Milestone: M11
I don't understand what work is being blocked by this. M11 until that's made clear to me. If it's just that the feature doesn't work, I can live with not having this in M10.
Summary: New Mail with HTML attachment(s) does not go out & hang the apprunner → New Mail with attachment(s) of 8K or more in size does not go out & hang the apprunner
It seems that the size has something to do with this problem. I took the English Netscape Home page and started paring down the size of the file from the original 23K to about 7K and that's when mail with this particular HTML page attached started going out. I have found other smaller files -- all 6K or smaller -- which can go out as attachments. This is not conclusive but the size of the HTML atttachment seems to play a role in this bug. The plain text version of Netscape English Home Page is only 5K and so I padded it to make it 8K. I now have a problem of not being to send this plain text attachment. So the problem is not the HTML or plain text, it seems to be the size. And the threshhold size here seems to be 7k. At 7k, it goes out, at 8K it does not. This may be related to Bug 14612 but at much smaller file size!
cc'ing mscott.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
I see what is happening here...we seem to be hanging in Necko ...ugh. Sounds like a networking issue...I will investigate. - rhp
Assignee: rhp → mscott
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
Hi Scott, I've looked into this and we are hanging when we try to send a mail message with an attachment that is over 8K. We seem to be stuck in PR_Poll(): NTDLL! 77f6825b() MSAFD! 77664a12() WS2_32! 776b9f5e() _PR_MD_PR_POLL(PRPollDesc * 0x02b8ae60, int 2, unsigned int 4294967295) line 224 + 35 bytes PR_Poll(PRPollDesc * 0x02b8ae60, int 2, unsigned int 4294967295) line 115 + 17 bytes nsSocketTransportService::Run(nsSocketTransportService * const 0x02b89114) line 403 + 23 bytes nsThread::Main(void * 0x02b89080) line 79 + 26 bytes _PR_NativeRunThread(void * 0x02b8ab40) line 379 + 13 bytes _threadstartex(void * 0x02b8a990) line 212 + 13 bytes KERNEL32! 77f04f3e() Let me know if there is something I can do to help. - rhp
This is a known problem and a duplicate of a necko bug... i'll mark it as a dup when I find it in a minute here.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 26 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
The stack trace rhp provided is actually a bit of red herring =)...that's just the generic polling for new data that netlib always runs through...I bet if you looked at the UI thread in the debugger, you'd see that we are blocked in a flush call for the output stream. Marking as a dup of 14612. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 14612 ***
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Bug 14612 has been verified. Mark this one verified.
Product: MailNews → Core
Product: Core → MailNews Core
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