263533 - X-Mozilla-Status lines appear in message body

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 248121

(MailNews Core :: Movemail, defect)

Description

[Timothy Fossum]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913

Some mail messages appear on the screen with X-Mozilla-Status lines in the
message body.  This almost always happens when the previous line in the message
body starts with "from " or "FROM " (matching the perl pattern m/^from /i) which
leads me to believe that movemail is putting these status lines in the message
even before mozilla gets to them.  Normally, lines in the message body beginning
with 'From ' (in this exact form) are "escaped" with ">" to distinguish these
lines from the beginning of a message header, but mozilla doesn't seem to look
only for the capital 'F' and lowercase 'rom '.

This problem began to occur only after about March 2004, when (I believe) I
installed Mozilla 1.6 or so.  It persists in Mozilla 1.7.3.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Send the following email message to a Mozilla movemail client:

This is a test of the
from feature
FROM feature
From feature
fROM feature
some feature 

2. Retrieve new messages in the client and observe that the received message
appears as folows both in the Inbox and on the screen:

This is a test of the
from feature
X-Mozilla-Status: 8000
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
FROM feature
X-Mozilla-Status: 8000
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
From feature
fROM feature
X-Mozilla-Status: 8000
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
some feature 

Notice that only the line beginning with 'From ' is immune from this behavior.
Actual Results:  
See above

Expected Results:  
The message body should not be altered with X-Mozilla-Status lines.

This behavior is more than just annoying, since the added X-Mozilla-Status lines
persist in the message if it is being forwarded or replied to.  If you reply to
this message, include the original message inline (without tabs or "> "s), and
send it to yourself, more X-Mozilla-Status lines appear.

Comment 1

[Philip K. Warren]

This is a duplicate of Bug 248241, which was fixed in Mozilla 1.8+ releases, and
should be in the next Mozilla 1.7 release that includes regular fixes from the
1.7 branch.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 248121 ***