267924 - POP3 mail fetch sometimes freezes when msg has an attachment

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect)

Description

[ron flory]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910

POP3 mail fetch sometimes freezes when msg has an attachment.

 - Depending on which msg has an offending attachment, the mailer will fetch
   some, or none of the pending incoming msgs, then freeze.
 - This problem happens only with the Windows client, I am able to use my
   Linux Mozilla 1.7.3 mail client to fetch all the msgs, then delete all those
   with attachements.  After I have done this, I can then restart the windows
   client and fetch all the remaining msgs.
 - This problem has been present in the Windows mail client for a very, very
   long time.
 - Our company uses a MS exchange server, but I always access it with POP3.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Simply 'get' email...
2. 
3.

Actual Results:  
Moz will freeze, the progress image at the top of screen continues, but the
email client freeses.  The email client does respond to 'stop' request, but
subsequent 'get' requests simply freeze.

Expected Results:  
fetch all emails on POP3 server for me.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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