285415 - 'Reply' and 'Forward' make content of some e-mails disappear.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Michael Graubart]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050308
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050308

I have not found out how to attach an .eml saved copy of the relevant e-mail. If
I do find out, I shall do so. This is an article from an online newspaper,
forwarded to me by a friend. If I click 'Reply' or 'Forward', a new mail page
duly appears, but the content of the e-mail flashes up and instantly vanishes.
This has happened in builds since 20050303, but I have tried the same e-mail
with an earlier build, and it did not happen.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open 'Mail and Newsgroups'.
2.Select the given e-mail.
3.Click 'Reply' or 'Forward'.

Actual Results:  
A new mail page opens, the contents of the original e-mail flash up and at once
disappear.

Expected Results:  
The contents of the e-mail should remain visible.

eMac G4, OS 10.3.8, Classic theme.

Comment 1

[Michael Graubart]

Attachment: Saved copy of e-mail.

Comment 2

[OstGote!]

As default do you compose as plain text or as HTMl e-mail?

Comment 3

[Michael Graubart]

In answer to the question of whether I normally compose in HTML or not — yes, in
HTML. But please note that this bug concerns an e-mail received by me, not one
composed by me.

As I was only able to attach a saved copy of the offending e-mail to my bug
report, I am now going to forward the original e-mail to S. Spitzer, to whom
this bug appears to have been assigned.

Comment 4

[Michael Graubart]

Very strange! I have just received another newspaper article — different paper,
but forwarded by the same friend — and there is no problem with this. So the bug
is specific to the original newspaper and e-mail.

May I repeat that even with the original (offending) e-mail, the bug didn't show
up till sometime after Build 20050213?

Comment 5

[Michael Graubart]

Attachment: e-mail saved as html

I have just realized that a version of the e-mail saved as html will contain
more useful data than the eml one I attached originally.

Comment 6

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

over to david, cc mscott

Comment 7

[Scott MacGregor]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 285612 ***

Comment 8

[Michael Graubart]

This has not been resolved in Build 20050310. It is also not, as far as I can
see, a duplicate of Bug 285612, because my Preferences are set to display
forwarded messages inline, not as attachments.

Comment 9

[OstGote!]

Check a build after 20050310-14 to test if your problem depends on the backed
out patch from bug 212123 or not.

Comment 10

[Scott MacGregor]

c'mon Michael you should know better :)


the bug was backed out yesterday. pretty hard for a build that came out before
it was backed out to ahve the fix in it unless we have time machines around here. 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 212123 ***

Comment 11

[Michael Graubart]

Oh, M.Scott! Yes, I would know better if I had any notion what 'backed out'
meant! Perhaps you should know better than to think that I was referring to a
build issued after the date I was writing on (and by the way I don't know where
that build was built — but here it was already early evening). I was merely
confirming that the bug was still there — and that it isn't a duplicate of one
dealing with attachments. I'll leave it to others this time to reopen the bug.

Comment 12

[Michael Graubart]

Just as confirmation that this is NOT a duplicate of the bug concerning
attachments: Bug 285415 is STILL PRESENT in build 20050311. I am now reopening it.

Comment 13

[Michael Graubart]

And even worse: in Build 20050311, it is impossible to send e-mails at all! One
can enter addresses and subject, but it is impossible to type anything at all in
the message pane. Is this part of the same bug, or shoul;d it be a new one?

Comment 14

[Michael Graubart]

A final comment re comment no.13: I have now found that it IS at first (after
starting Mozilla 20050311) possible to type a message in the message pane. But
if I go back to the e-mail that was the cause of the original problem (a problem
that is still there in Build 20050311) and try to reply to it or forward it,
THEN it becomes impossible to type any message in any new e-mail. The only way
then to restore mail-composition funtionality is to quit Mozilla and restart it.

Comment 15

[Michael Graubart]

Hurray! In Build 20050320 this bug was still present, but I've just downloaded
Build 20050324 — and it seems to have been fixed. At least it 'WORKSFORME'.