238894 - Switching folder causes Thunderbird to crash

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Nils Vogels]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (20040207)

Every once in a while, switching in IMAP from folder to folder causes WinXP 
Thunderbird to produce a crash. 

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Thunderbird
2. Read mail on IMAP folders
3. Switch folders randomly
4. Move messages from one account to another
5. Read messages
6. Watch the crash

Actual Results:  
Thunderbird stopped functioning

Expected Results:  
It should have displayed the clicked folder

AppName: thunderbird.exe AppVer: 0.5.0.0 ModName: xpcom.dll
ModVer: 0.0.0.0 Offset: 0001b7fc

Comment 1

[Nils Vogels]

Attachment: appcompat.txt file from windows crash popups

Windows automatically generates this on crash

Comment 2

[Nils Vogels]

Set the severity to critical, since the application crashes and that's what the 
description says. Don't know how severe it is, but in the current situation, 
Thunderbird keeps crashing every 15 minutes in this install.

Comment 3

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

unable to reproduce with thunderbird 0.5+ (20040312) on winXP