222908 - mail stalls when downloading a damaged message (ie. "no sender")

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(MailNews Core :: MIME, defect)

Description

[LuAnn Schwarz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

When retrieving mail the program sucessfully completes logging into the mail
server, determines how many messages are pending, and begins to download them. 
If it's the first or a subsequent message, when the program encounters an
unexpected condition, it just sits there and does nothing.  Using Eudora (ver.
6.0) to retrieve the same batch of messages it is sucessful; however, it alerts
the user of a "task error".  Looking at that last message, Eudora displays "No
Sender, No Subject".  Mozilla should be tolerant of "buggered up" messages.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Launch mail handler.
2.Sit back and wait for a bum message.
3.

Actual Results:  
The mail handler stalled when it hit a bad message.

Expected Results:  
As with Eudora, indicate to the user that an error was detected; but then go on
and continue the retrieval.

Comment 1

[Christian Eyrich]

What server do you use, POP3 or IMAP? Please set the Component according to your
server.
Is the "corruption" of the message really no sender and/or no subject? If you
look at the message source in Eudora you should see what's missing.

Comment 2

[Doug Wright]

*** Bug 278354 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

do you have a virus checker installed? virus checkers can get in the way and
simply stop sending data to the pop3 code when they see a malformed message like
this.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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