270188 - Mail body of a message sent from outlook express not displayed in the preview window

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 101719

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Kameshwar]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

When messages sent by outlook are opened in the preview window the message body
does not appear in the preview. When i look at the message source, the supposed
message body is present in there. This problem appeared first in the release
version 0.8 of thunderbird. Thunderbird 0.7.2 did not have this problem

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
No special steps required. Will send a sample of the message source if requested.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #0)
> No special steps required.
> Will send a sample of the message source if requested.

If you can anticipate that it might be needed, then it probably is needed.  
Attach the sample to the bug -- save it as .EML, then use the Create New 
Attachment link above.

Comment 2

[Kameshwar]

Attachment: Sample mail message sent from outlook express

Comment 3

[Kameshwar]

Attachment: A screenshot of the way this message looks in thunderbird

Comment 4

[David :Bienvenu]

this appears to be the fault of the virus scanner - the last part of a
multi-part alternative message is supposed to be the best part to display, but
the virus scanner is tacking on two parts at the end...

Comment 5

[Kameshwar]

(In reply to comment #4)
> this appears to be the fault of the virus scanner - the last part of a
> multi-part alternative message is supposed to be the best part to display, but
> the virus scanner is tacking on two parts at the end...

Yes that is true. The virus scanner is attaching two text messages to the end of
the message. Incidentally both in outlook express and squirelmail which is the
web frontend at my place, the message displays properly. Does this mean that
they are both taking the first part of the multipart mime and displaying it? Is
there a setting in thunderbird to display all parts or first part etc?

Comment 6

[David :Bienvenu]

if you view | message body as | plain text, I think we might pick the first
part...try that and let me know...

Comment 7

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

As noted in the dupe, bug 130119 requests a means to select which 'alternative' 
part is displayed.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 101719 ***

Comment 8

[Kameshwar]

(In reply to comment #7)
> As noted in the dupe, bug 130119 requests a means to select which 'alternative' 
> part is displayed.
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 101719 ***

Ok, tried searching for problems similar to the one i was facing, but couldn't
get any before posting a new report. Thanks a lot for the pointers. :-)