255488 - attachments sometimes not visible in IMAP

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Robert Lawson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040714
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040714

I do not get the white box at upper right of message viewer that shows
attachments in some messages viewed on an IMAP server. My server supports both
IMAP and pop3 modes. Same message viewed in pop3 mode is fine. It depends on
which client made the message. Messages composed with Mozilla, Outlook express,
and Bat clients are fine. Messages composed in Yahoo webmail or in mail2web do
not show the attachments. I can always see these attachments if I use mail2web
webmail, outlook express, or the bat mail clients

Note this problem exists in moz 1.6 moz 1.7 and current thunderbird as well

It might have s/t to do with the string a the client uses to mark where the
attachment begins. I have looked at this a bit but do not have anymore time

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. send mail to self from mozilla mail client- view in mozilla Imap mode- ok
2. send mail to self from yahoo webmail client- view in mozilla Imap mode- not ok
3. send mail to self from web2mail.com mail client- view in mozilla Imap mode-
not ok
4, View these messages wiht mail2web client, bat, outlook and all attachments
are available
Actual Results:  
If mail was made in yahoo webmail or in mail2web clients, I do not have the box
on the upper left that shows the attachment in Mozilla IMAP mail - ok if message
viewed with pop3 protocol

If mail was made in mozilla or the bat clients, I do have the box on the upper
left that shows the attachment

Expected Results:  
IMAP mail message viewer should have white box on upper right to show
attachments in mail generated wiht all clients

Comment 1

[Philippe Landau]

could be related to:
Attachments occasionally not 'seen' on IMAP server
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=245913

Comment 2

[Olaf Schulz]

See my comment on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290063#c4 - seems
to be the same bug.

Comment 3

[Olaf Schulz]

See my comment on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290063#c4 - seems
to be the same bug.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 6

[Olaf Schulz]

I could confirm the same behaviour with 
Thunderbird 1.5b.

Please, merge this bug into #255488, it seems to be the same one.
It also depends on the IMAP server, whether the bad unexpected IMAP behaviour
occurs,
Create an account at web.de and confirm.