254605 - race condition causes blank message body

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Aaron Solochek]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: version 0.7.3 (20040803)

When quickly going through new messages by hitting 'n,' and some messages are
taking a few seconds to load, occasionally a message will appear to have loaded,
but its body is blank.  The header contains all the relevant information, but
clicking on it to open it in the message pane, or double-clicking it to open in
a new window both result in a blank message.  When the source is viewed, it
contains no information at all (not even the header information which TB seems
to know).

The problem goes away with a restart.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1.hit 'n' quickly to go through new messages, not waiting for the messages to
completely load.
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
occasionally a message loads with no body

Expected Results:  
messages load correctly

Comment 1

[Lorenzo Colitti]

Are you seeing this with POP or IMAP?

Comment 2

[Aaron Solochek]

imap, both cyrus and binc.

Comment 3

[Lorenzo Colitti]

How long have you been seeing this? Can you try with a debug build?

Comment 4

[Aaron Solochek]

point me to a debug build and I'll try it.  I'd rather not build thunderbird
myself.  

Comment 5

[Brian Gallew]

I see the same problem.  It occurred (rarely) under the Mozilla-1.7 built-in
mail client as well.  For me, it happens at least 3 messages/day.  FWIW, I'm
accessing a Cyrus IMAP server via SSL.

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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