267282 - Group By confused with mails from the future

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Pascal Berger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 Sunpossum/1.0RC1 (All your Firefox/1.0RC1 are belong to Firesomething)
Build Identifier: version 0.8+ (20041101)

Sometimes it seems like the Group By feature get's confused. I've grouped by
date, after a while it looks like in the attached screenshot. After canceling
and reactivation of the Group By everything looks fine.

I wasn't able yet to reproduce it clearly.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Pascal Berger]

Attachment: Screenshot

Comment 2

[David :Bienvenu]

what version of thunderbird were you using? Did you undo the deletes of any
messages, or have new messages arrive after the folder was open? I'm trying to
narrow down possible causes of the confusion...there's an existing bug about
undoing delete causing confusion, though not exactly like the screenshot.

Comment 3

[Pascal Berger]

Latest TB Version: version 0.8+ (20041101)

I haven't undo the deletion of message, but there were new messages. It happened
several times today at the following scenario (but not everytime):
- message folder open
- application in the background
- new message arrived
- after focusing to thunderbird the messages were confused

Comment 4

[David :Bienvenu]

did any of the new messages arrive out of date order? Did you have any messages
in the today bucket when new messages arrived?

Comment 5

[Pascal Berger]

Yes, there's a message with the date 6th december

Comment 6

[David :Bienvenu]

a message from the future?

I see one problem in my build - if the today group is empty and a new message
arrives, we don't display the today group. This used to work...

Comment 7

[Pascal Berger]

> a message from the future?
ähm yes. it seems like the sender had the wrong system date (there are also a
lot of spam messages with future date stamps)

> I see one problem in my build - if the today group is empty and a new message
> arrives, we don't display the today group. This used to work...
the today group was definitely not empty, since i have this message from the
future. it could be that it only happened as long as the future message was the
only one in the today group. i'll try to reproduce this.

Comment 8

[Pascal Berger]

ok, i'm able to reproduce this with the following steps:
- one message from the future, no messages from today
- group by date
- next time a new message arrives the grouping gets confused

Comment 9

[David :Bienvenu]

Attachment: proposed fix

this fixes the undo delete issue, and various other issues with headers
arriving into open views.

Comment 10

[David :Bienvenu]

fix checked into aviary branch.

Comment 11

[David :Bienvenu]

Attachment: fix invalidation problem

we weren't invalidating to the insertion point...