193153 - Reply to mail results in composer window with only Subject

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Peter Anvin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030211
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030211

Sometimes (but annoyingly often), when I press <Reply> or <Reply All> to an
email, I get landed in a Composer window with only Subject filled in: no
recipient, no quoted text.  Furthermore, if I type in the text area the composer
is using a proportional font, which it usually does not (I'm using the plaintext
composer.)

I am using IMAP mail folders on UW imapd servers; subjectively it seems like it
happens when Mozilla is otherwise slow accessing the server.  I say "Mozilla is
slow accessing the server" as opposed to "server is slow", because Mozilla
occationally seems to stall for no apparent reason.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select an email in MailNews on an IMAP folder
2. Press Reply or Reply All


Actual Results:  
Composer window with only Subject pops up

Expected Results:  
Pop up Composer with Subject, recipient(s) and quoted text

Comment 1

[Rotaluclac]

I see such things too, but only when I start typing text before Mozilla has
completely finished drawing the Compose window.  For me, the solution is to wait
until I'm sure Mozilla has finally finished drawing the Compose window and
filling out all of the fields (this may take multiple seconds on my Pentium II
350 MHz).

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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