284254 - Downloading pop3 messages hangs on RETR command for message with no messageID

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(MailNews Core :: Networking: POP, defect)

Description

[Steve Smith]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: version 1.0 (20041206)

Downloading pop3 messages fails on RETR command for message with no messageID
when the system is set to leave a copy of messages on the server

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. download a message from a pop3 server without a message id field
Actual Results:  
Thunderbird hangs

Expected Results:  
I understand that this is how unique messages are identified but could there be
another way to track these messages also? perhaps a hash of the message etc?

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Please attach a pop3 log (using the "create new attachment" link in this bug" :
http://www.mozilla.org/quality/mailnews/mail-troubleshoot.html

Comment 2

[Steve Smith]

Attachment: The pop3 log of the same email containing a message id field

Comment 3

[Steve Smith]

Attachment: The pop3 log of the same email missing the message id field

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

it looks like your server is broken :
0[284848]: RECV: (null)

Comment 5

[Steve Smith]

(In reply to comment #4)
> it looks like your server is broken :
> 0[284848]: RECV: (null)

This could be me being stupid but i just tried sending and receiving mail (just
sending and receiving not replicating the problem) from 3 other mail servers
(freeserve,ntl,gmail) and all have the line RECV: (null) as the next line after
the multiline termination is seen (CRLF.CRLF).

Comment 6

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Reporter:
Do you use antivirus Software like Norton ?

Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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