285092 - POP3 Mail truncated

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[David Waring]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

When receiving multiple mails with POP3 the first few arrive ok, but subsequent
ones either contain lots of nul characters ('\0') or simply don't exist in the
mail file even though the .msf file contains the header info.

May be related to bug 257126. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
(if already received mails and leaving on pop server, delete popstate.dat to
receive again)
1. Get Mail


Actual Results:  
First few mails ok, then a partial mail (possibly ending in nul chars), then no
mails at all in Inbox mail file even though .msf file indicates mails.

Expected Results:  
Inbox mail file should contain mails downloaded from the pop3 server that are
indicated in the .msf file.

Windows XP sp 2
Symantec AntiVirus
Windows Firewall is off, no other firewall software installed

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Did you try to disable Symantec for a test ?
And about which Thunderbird Version youz are talking ?

Comment 2

[David Waring]

Unfortunately this is a work system and I'm locked out of turning Symantec AV
on/off by admins.

I'm using Thunderbird version 1.0 (20041206) (en-US)

Comment 3

[David Waring]

FYI the pop server being connected to is  the Dovecot one
(http://www.dovecot.org/), in case that has any bearing on this.

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

CVan you disable the scanning of the Thunderbird profile ?

Comment 5

[David Waring]

No, I can't disable any scanning.

However I have found a way of reducing the amount of times the mail is
truncated. If I store the mail on my local harddisc rather than my network drive
home directory, then the truncated emails become very rare. This, to me,
suggests a timing issue in the code.

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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