288545 - Message Window does not unescape MBOX From line formatting

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 121947

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Josh Friesen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050328 Firefox/1.0.2 (MOOX M3)
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird version 1.0.2 (20050317)

When a plain text email message contains a line in the body portion that looks
like this:
From foo bar foobar bar foo foo;

Thunderbird will escape the line for MBOX and store it as:
>From foo bar foobar bar foo foo;

But when it is displayed in the message window it is not unescaped and is
instead displayed as:
>From foo bar foobar bar foo foo;

It is also incorrect in the Message Source window, which is probably why the
Message window is wrong.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
See details.
Actual Results:  
>From foo bar foobar bar foo foo;

Expected Results:  
From foo bar foobar bar foo foo;

Writing a new message in Thunderbird which includes the line:
From foo bar foobar bar foo foo;

causes the message that is sent out to have an extra space char at the front of
the line like this:
 From foo bar foobar bar foo foo;

I believe these to be a related issue and should probably be addressed at the
same time.

Comment 1

[Josh Friesen]

If you view the initial bug report email message in Thunderbird you will not be
able to discern the correct example lines from the incorrect... please check the
bugzilla page.

Comment 2

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 121947 ***