257828 - When I save a message "as file" and choose the type "Text files" I get multiple lines merged into one line

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: MIME, defect)

Description

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Re-reporting bug 221504.

Originally reported as:
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

When I choose the type "Mail files" then the lines do not merge.

[With this] message.eml digest containing 15 messages,
14-th and 15th of them merge into a single 1497 character line when I save
as type "Text Files".


attachment 132818 [details]: Two files: eml file is correct; txt file is incorrect

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 221504 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

I've reproduced this symptom with Thunderbird 0.7.  The only difference (a 
slight improvement) between the text file saved by Moz1.4 and the one saved by 
TB 0.7 is that the smileys from the original mail are maintained; they had been 
stripped out during the earlier save.

The thing I notice at message 14 is, that is the only message in the entire 
digest which has a "standard" signature delimiter:  --<space>  starting at the 
beginning of the line.  After the Save As | Text, everything from that delimiter 
onward is placed on a single line.

I additionally notice that text that appears in the original mail quoted with 
single > characters at the beginning of the line have those increased to two or 
more:

  >  text
becomes
  >> text

and
  > > text
becomes
  >>> > text

Comment 3

[Jungshik Shin]

> "standard" signature delimiter:
 
So, it may kick off something strange here. 

Comment 4

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

Looks problem of bug 269812 is involved, then putting bug 269812 in "Depends on:".
Mike, correct if wrong, please.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 299729 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 299729 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

The text from the duplicate bug shows a slight variation on the text for 
this one:  at the point of the line merge, the "sig" is nonstandard, but 
looks like this:

-- Tim, N9PUZ
-- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.
Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.7.7/20 - Release Date:
6/16/2005
------------------------------
Message: 23
  [...]

and is saved as follows (this is supposed to be two lines, the second one 
really long):

-- Tim, N9PUZ
-- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.7.7/20 - Release Date: 6/16/2005 ------------------------------ Message: 23  [...]

That is, the *second* (and last?) line that begins "-- " is the point at 
which all the subsequent lines are merged into a single line.

I also note that in each case, the line beginning with "-- " is followed 
shortly after by line consisting of dashes, as a message separator.  Maybe significant, maybe not.

Comment 8

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

Comment 9

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

Bug 269812 was found to be different/independent problem. Removing dependency.

Comment 10

[Matěj Cepl]

I think this is what hits when saving patches inside of emails. I was told in bug 503271 comment 4 that I shouldn't hope saving as .eml would work as we want, so I tried .txt but that doesn't work either. Will ask my colleague to attach an example.

Comment 11

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Its slightly unclear to me what this bug is about, and I think it needs clear test cases attaching directly to this bug.

Comment 12

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Walt, can you reproduce?

I tested with 68.1.1 and could not reproduce

Comment 13

[WaltS48 [:walts48]]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #12)

Walt, can you reproduce?

I tested with 68.1.1 and could not reproduce

Tested with 68.1.1 on Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS Linux and could not reproduce.

Comment 14

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Excellent. Thanks for testing