193024 - mail headers appear in the same pane as the body; attachments not available

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 186295

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Ralf Hagen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210

Excerpts from a message in newsgroup netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news, Subject:
 header display problems in 1.2.1

I upgraded to mozilla 1.2.1 and now the mail headers appear in the same
pane as the message body and simply have different shades of gray as
backgrounds. URLs aren't linked, and the attachment pane doesn't appear.

In each version of Mozilla 1.2 there is no head line in the mail program. The
adresses are in the body and there's no attachment to click. If I open the
message it's blank. I deinstalled Moz and tried everything. Even in 1.3a the
problem is there.

1.1 works fine.

After deleting the profile and setting up a new one, everything is fine again.
Removing XUl.mfl doesn't help.

The strange thing is that Mozilla 1.2.1 was working fine until I switched on
this morning, when it suddenly developed exactly that problem.

Something must have gone seriously wrong, because at the time it
developed this problem, it rebuilt all the index files for the mail
folders. I don't remember having any system crash.

Moving back to Mozilla 1.1 solves the problem; re-migrating to Mozilla 1.3b by
me produced the same error, however.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
This happens in Mozilla builds 1.2.1 and above. No other way to view mail is
possible.

Actual Results:  
See screenshot.

Comment 1

[Andreas Mai [Placebo]]

I'm seeing exactly the same problem since I switched from 1.3a to 1.3b, but with
the english language pack & Win98.
Is there a workaround or anything, as I wouldn't like to delete my profile
because of that. btw: switching themes doesn't help.

Comment 2

[Andreas Mai [Placebo]]

Seems to me a dupe of bug 186295.
Deleting the lower (junky) part of abook.mab resolved the problem in my case.
Dunno how that junk came there, though.
Ralf: Does that help you, too ?

Comment 3

[Ralf Hagen]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 186295 ***

Comment 4

[Ralf Hagen]

Deleting the binary part of abook.mab (after I found the right one - Mozilla
seems to make quite a chaos in using multiple profile folders for the same
profile by me - I prefer my profile folders NOT in c:\Dokumente und
Einstellungen\user\mozilla) eliminated the problem for me, too.
I marked the bug as duplicate of the other one.
Now I hope they find a way to fix the address book.