243009 - eMail not displayable / no email body shown

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 155537

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Robert Hofmann]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040429
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040429

Alway, eMails I get from a certain sender are displaied EMPTY/blank in the
mail-window. But taking a look at its source, it looks like a simple plain
ASCII-text-email.

I guess this is why ther is a tag "Content-type:" that is empty. But I am not
sure about.

Anyway, I do not think, displaying simply nothing is the right way to handle
such mails. In any case it is better do potentially display weired chars than
nothing.

Attached you will find an example. Tis happens since around Mozilla 1.6...

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a new email-folder
2. save attached email
3. terminate Mozilla
4. replace new empty folder with the saved file
 a) go to folder, where your email-mailboxes are physically stored
    (use Explorer or similar)
 b) search your new folder
 c) delete the (normally empty) folder-file
 d) move saved email to folder-file
3. start Mozilla again
4. display this folder

If you did everything correct, the mail should be displayed, but only the
header, no body.

Actual Results:  
Empty email body

Expected Results:  
Message should be displayed

Comment 1

[Robert Hofmann]

Attachment: Example email

Comment 2

[Christian Eyrich]

The problem is the empty Content-type: header.
Mozilla doesn't know the content type "" (empty) and therfore displays the body
as attachment of unknown type.

Though I'm quite sure empty type isn't allowed, Mozilla could treat it as
text/plain.
Jungshik, is this your area?

Comment 3

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 155537 ***