255262 - Message body dissapears if Thunderbird left open for a period of time.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[fakie1080]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

I opened some mail in Thunderbird in the morning and left the application
running whist at work. CAme home later to find that all the text in every
message in the POP3 account has gone. No message header and not message body. I
have since lost some important inforamtion because of this.

Reproducible: Didn't try
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open Thunderbird and download mail from POP3 account.
2. Leave Thunderbird open and go about your day or something.
3. Try to view the message later, to find that the header and main body have gone.

Actual Results:  
I could not view the message. Tried to reboot. Installed 0.74 from 0.73. Still
counldn't view the messages

Expected Results:  
Displayed the message header and body.

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

can you try deleting the file Inbox.msf from your user profile directory, and
restarting thunderbird?

Comment 2

[Jesper Hertel]

I had the same problem, mine was after just a few minutes. Deleting the msf file
solved the problem.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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