201715 - When I started Mozilla Mail I lost a lot of messages from Inbox

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Database, defect)

Description

[Peter Forgacs]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; hu-HU; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; hu-HU; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

I found a very interesting and very serious bug.

When I started Mozilla Mail I lost a lot of messages from Inbox. My first
(oldest) 20 - 30 mail dissapeared. Then I saw Inbox with text editor. I saw this:
"
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////AAABuQAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA


------=_NextPart_000_0011_03BF99E9.CDFD2001
Content-Type: video/mpeg
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="00000346.mpeg"

AAABuiEAAQABgAb9AAABuwAJgAb9BeD/wMAgAAABvgjfD///////////////////////////////
"
and etc.


But a good Inbox looks like this:
"
From - Thu Oct 03 15:26:07 2002
X-UIDL: 1033637624.11342_0.----.----.hu,S=860
X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
Return-Path: <[e-mail]>
Received: from mail.----.hu (----.----.hu [193.---.---.1])
	by maya.----.hu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g939Xhb11331
	for <[e-mail]>; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 11:33:43 +0200
"
and etc.

I think my "bed" Inbox has no correct head. I think my Inbox lost the first few
kbyte or some mail overwrote my first few mails.


When I found this bug (when I started Mozilla Mail) I saw that the Mail program
tried build mail information database.

I have already met this bug twice.
My Inbox is 45 Mbyte big.
My newest mails remained correctly.
There wasn't any problem with Mozilla Mail or Window before this datalost happened.

Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Henrik Gemal]

i think we need more info to be able to reproduce this. perhaps you could check
if it happens with specific mails etc. otherwise we cant really do anything.