192488 - message body doesn't correspond to message header, for a specific sender

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect)

Description

[Luis B. Almeida]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

When trying to view messages from a specific sender, the body displayed a
different message, that didn't correspond to the header. I tried viewing the
Inbox file with an ASCII viewer, to try to recover the original message, but the
Inbox file also showed the wrong message, after that header.

This happened multiple times, always with messages from the same sender. It
could be related to the sender himself or, more probably, to some specific
formatting or content that he used in his messages. I'm accessing e-mail through
POP3.

This problem caused me to move back to Netscape 7 to handle e-mail, as I was
losing important messages. In the meantime I've deleted those erroneous
messages. I'm now using Mozilla again, however, and I'll add a comment to this
bug report, with a specific example, if and when it occurs again.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
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I'm classifying this bug's severity as normal since it only happened with
messages from a specific user and I don't know how to reproduce it. But if it
happens again it should be changed to critical, since it causes loss of data.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

This bug has had no comments for a long time. Statistically, we have found that
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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.