Closed Bug 216781 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

lines in mail composition that begin with a space are having one extra space added during transmission

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Networking: SMTP, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
major

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 57800

People

(Reporter: thomas-mzll-01, Assigned: sspitzer)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.2a (20030813)

When I send a message through Mozilla Mail / Thunderbird, I am seeing an extra
space added to the beginning of any line that begins with a space. The reason
this is hard to spot is because the mail viewer then removes the extra space
when displaying the message in Mozilla Mail / Thunderbird. But if you view the
message source, you can see the extra spaces added. If you view the message in
another email client, you can see the extra spaces as well. I have verified that
this is occurring when the message is sent by the SMTP engine, because I can
monitor incoming SMTP connections on my server, and the extra spaces are being
sent by Mozilla Mail / Thunderbird.

I also sent the same test message from Outlook Express to my mail server, and
verified that no extra spaces were being added.

I have noticed this problem in the past, but just now had the time to track down
the details.

I am marking this as a 'major feature being broken,' as it is causing the data
of outgoing emails to be changed, which could be a major problem in some cases.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Send an email to yourself with some of the lines beginning with one or more
spaces. 
2. When you receive the email, notice it looks just as you sent it.
3. Now 'view source' on the message or view it in another email client, and you
will see the extra space prepended to every line that began with a space.

Actual Results:  
Saw extra spaces prepended to each line.

Expected Results:  
No extra spaces should be added to each line.
Can't reproduce - see bug 208235 comment 7.  If you don't mind, please try
testing the signature file mentioned in that bug.  If it doesn't reproduce the
bug for you, please provide your own reproducible testcase.

Also, do you have to save the message in drafts or choose Send Later (bug
112986) before sending?  See also what's possibly the original bug (which may be
wrongly duped), bug 57800.

For removed spaces bug, see bug 215068.  This is the only one I can reproduce at
all.  I use WinXP, Mozilla Seamonkey 1.4.  Can you reproduce the bug in
Seamonkey?  Can you see anything that might be different between our configurations?


This does look like bug 57800 (I promise I searched first, but didn't find it! :)

I will followup on that bug and close this as a dup.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 57800 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
One problem is that bug I just linked this to has been marked as 'resolved
duplicate,' but it is not a duplicate of the bug it has been linked to... that
original bug 112986 seems to pertain only to drafts. Not sure what to do, maybe
someone can re-open bug 57800 for me?
Product: MailNews → Core
Product: Core → MailNews Core
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