211703 - Return Receipt occasionally shrinks subject

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Backend, defect)

Description

[Nigel Jewell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

If I send a message to myself with subject=(no subject) and request a return
receipt, the return receipt subject is incorrect.

So an initial subject of "(no subject)" becomes:

"Return Receipt (displayed) -  no subject)"

Note the missing bracket!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Hit compose
2.Type in your email address
3.Ask for a return receipt
4.Hit send
5.Recieve the email
6.Acknowledge the receipt
7.Receive the receipt
8.Look at the subject

Actual Results:  
Return receipt subject incorrect

Expected Results:  
Correct subject, "Return Receipt (displayed) -  (no subject)"

Comment 1

[Henrik Gemal]

confirmed.
not really sure where the ) is stripped from the subject

the new subject is made at:
http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/lib/libmsg/msgmdn.cpp#682
where the old subject (m_subject) is inserted

perhaps the ) is stripped in strip_continuations:
http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/lib/libmime/mimehdrs.c#2895
?

Comment 2

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 3

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but still has no comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project 5 years ago.

Because of this, we're resolving the bug as EXPIRED.

If you still can reproduce the bug on SeaMonkey 2 or otherwise think it's still valid, please REOPEN it and if it is a platform or toolkit issue, move it to the according component.

Query tag for this change: EXPIRED-20100420