1703935 - News Group Messages Throw Failure with "RFC-822" error

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1693019

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[avanand]

Attachment: Screen Shot 2021-04-08 at 1.13.35 PM.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:88.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/88.0

Steps to reproduce:

• Goes to NNTP Newgroup you have subscribe to
• Read one or two un-read messages.
• when click third message to read it pops up a error message.

Actual results:

Popup with

You have chosen to open:
Which is: RFC-822 data (617 KB)
from: news://news.domain.com:119

what should Thunderbird do with this file?

• Open with "Choose"

• Save File

• Do this automatically for files like this from now on.
  - Cancel - OK

Expected results:

You should be able to normally read the message. It works fine for one or two messages initially.