288270 - Text Message Attachments Display Truncated at 4096 bytes

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Phil Wells]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

Certain text message attachments appear truncated however all bytes seem to be
present in the message file.

Isolating the message into a seperate folder and with an editor extracting all
bytes from the beginning of the message through to the end of the displayed text
shows that the message is truncated a byte 4096.

In the attachment, the display is through line 71 ending with ">The man is"

I am also seeing the message

Sun-Java-System-SMTP-Warning: Lines longer than SMTP allows found and truncated.

in the headers.

Truncated Messages are from 

     X-Mailer: AT&T Message Center Version 1 (Feb 14 2005)

Other members of the distribution list are not complaining of this problem.  I
don't know what the date in the X-Mailer message is but I only started seeing
this in messages after this data (2/21/2005) - coincidence?

Thunderbird Version - version 1.0 (20041206)
OS Windows XP


Reproducible: Didn't try

Comment 1

[Phil Wells]

Attachment: Message with with message illustrating display problem

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

This message is damaged : it contains a text/plain attachment with the whole
rabbit story, but also a text/html message with a HTML-copy that is truncated
after the "The man is" line (line 126). Thunderbird is displaying the HTML-part,
that's why it appears to be trucnated.

Also note that this message itself appears twice in the attachment, but that
might be an error on your site (received twice, but forgot to remove the extra
copy).

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Note also that the truncation occurs at byte 999 of the single long line 
containing the HTML version of the text, which is the typical limit where the 
SMTP server truncates long lines.  This problem is with the sending mail 
program, not with TB.