284391 - movemail does not get the last mail message if it has an empty body

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Rosina Bignall]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050224 Firefox/1.0.1 Fedora/1.0.1-1.3.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050224 Firefox/1.0.1 Fedora/1.0.1-1.3.1

If you get an email with a null body as the last mail in your
/var/spool/mail/user, it is not moved into Thunderbird (0.8) nor is it left in
the spool. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Setup: Set up a movemail account in thunderbird corresponding to user that will
get mail from /var/spool/mail/user (no external command)
1. Send a mail to yourself: 
$ mail user
Subject: test message
(press ^d)
cc: (press enter - haven't tried it with a cc:)
Null message body; hope that's ok
2. Check /var/spool/mail/user to make sure it's there (it is)
3. Make sure no messages come in behind it (null messages are fine as long as
they are not the last one)
4. In thunderbird, Get Mail
5. Messages previous to the last one are moved to thunderbird, but the last
(null body one) is lost - not in Thunderbird and not in the spool.

Actual Results:  
I lost the last mail - admittedly, it was an empty mail, but sometimes you do
get mail like this such as a status report with a subject, but no body.  YOu at
least need to know that it came.

Expected Results:  
The message should have been listed in the Thunderbird Inbox for that account.

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
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.