173018 - The bodies of some mail postings appear blank

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Mark Patterson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021006
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021006

In both the preview pane and the mail window, a number of postings appear blank,
in fact grey. When I look at the source code, it looks normal. There is a
message there. The number of lines appears in the list.
One example is a posing I made
Message-ID: <3d9ecebc$0$22177$[e-mail]>
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2002 21:36:27 +1000
From: Mark Patterson <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: aus.computers.mac
Subject: Optus Cable via Airport?

This is the only message I have posted

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Subscribe to aus.computers.mac
2.  Look for my message
3.  Load the message
Actual Results:  
Both the preview pane and the message window show a grey background with no text

Expected Results:  
It should have shown the text in both the preview pane and the window.

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

This problem is already known, please search for the orginate bug.

Comment 2

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Removing DUPEME, the bug that dups this bug (i thought) was only that Links
between < and > disappear. But this isn't the case here.

Comment 3

[Jerry Baker]

I think you are thinking of bug 172808. That bug is no about links only. It is
about *any* text whatsoever that appears between <> characters being blank.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 172808 ***

Comment 4

[Greg Onufer]

If that's true then bug 172808 wasn't fixed.  You can't have it both ways.
I have a mozilla build with the 172808 fix and I still get empty message bodies
if they contain only text within angle brackets.

  

Comment 5

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Jerry: Have you already looked at that news-article? I checked it out and there
are no < or >

Reopening

Comment 6

[Jerry Baker]

Did you read the subject per chance? Take a look. "words between < and > is not
displayed (in bugmail)". Does that make it easier to understand?

Comment 7

[Jerry Baker]

This bug is fixed with 2002100710 trunk.

The following test messages were displayed correctly:

Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 16:24:59 -0600
From: Jerry Baker <[e-mail]>
X-Mozilla-Draft-Info: internal/draft; vcard=0; receipt=0; uuencode=0
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 [en-US] (Windows NT 5.1; U) Gecko
X-Accept-Language: en-us
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Jerry Baker <[e-mail]>
Subject: Test

<http://www.yahoo.com>

----

Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 16:24:35 -0600
From: Jerry Baker <[e-mail]>
X-Mozilla-Draft-Info: internal/draft; vcard=0; receipt=0; uuencode=0
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 [en-US] (Windows NT 5.1; U) Gecko
X-Accept-Language: en-us
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Jerry Baker <[e-mail]>
Subject: Test

<This is a test message>

Comment 8

[Greg Onufer]

I couldn't see anything in the body of the bugzilla mail notification, I only
see the yahoo link on the bugzilla web page.

That's with trunk 2002100710, "view message body as Simple HTML" or "plain text".

Nor are URLs in the message body converted to links like they used to be.

Comment 9

[Jerry Baker]

Ah ha. I am viewing messages as "Original HTML". Try that.

Comment 10

[Greg Onufer]

That doesn't do it here.  Plus my own test message has a mime type of text/plain.

Comment 11

[Jerry Baker]

Are you sure you got the trunk build, and not the branch? Going to the /latest
directory doesn't guarantee a trunk build. If you want the latest trunk build,
go to ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest-trunk/

Comment 12

[Mark Patterson]

I (original poster [child]) just downloaded
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/mozilla-macosX-trunk.smi.bin

Comment 13

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

and? anything new, got this problem fixed with the new build?

Comment 14

[esther]

OK, I took the 10-6 build on my Mac OSX and saw the problem as first reported. 
Indeed, in the body of the message pane I get a grey background with a broken
QuickTime icon.  I get this for several messages in that news group.  If this
was a dup it was a dup of a different bug, but it no longer exists with the
10-25 trunk build on Mac OSX.  Oh, this problem was only visible with Mac OSX
for me, I tested it on linux and windows with the 10-6 build and did not see the
problem.
Resolving as wfm since I haven't found a dup for it. 

Comment 15

[esther]

Also note, the problem didn't go away with the late 10-7trunk build so in Mark's
last comment, in taking the 10-7 nightly build, he would have still seen the
problem.

Comment 16

[esther]

resolving a worksforme

Comment 17

[esther]

verifying