297356 - Email disappear if use "Fetch Headers only" and lost the connection while download the messages

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Zeque]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: 

The problem is when I enable the Fetch-Headers Only, and if i download all the 
headers and I do a click in " Click here to download the rest of the message" 
it start to download, but if I lost the internet connection then the message 
disappear and I can't download it again, but the message is not deleted from 
the server.
I use Mozilla Thunderbird V. 1.0.2(20050317), I have Windows XP SP1, and I test 
this problem in anothers machines, and i had the same problem. I used to use a 
satellital connection, and is very common lost it.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Tools, Account Settings, Server Settings, Check the "Fetch headers only" box
2. Send and email with attachments to yourself.
3. Click on Get Mail, click over the new mail, and you will see "Click here to 
download the rest of the messages"
4. While the message is downloading unplug you cable connection, or drop it.

Actual Results:  
Your header will disappear, and only you can see the text "Click here to 
download the rest of the messages" and the messages couldn't be downloading 
never more, but it is not deleted from the mail server.


Expected Results:  
If I lost the connection Thunderbird must show an error, and when the 
connection is restored it should download the message.

Excuseme for my english =)

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

Howard, is this something we've fixed since 1.0?

Comment 2

[Howard Chu]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Howard, is this something we've fixed since 1.0?

It sounds similar to the problem I had in bug 261668 with losing the connection
in the middle of a header download. I'll note that the fixes for that bug were
committed after 20050317. However, I'm not entirely sure that the fix in 261668
(attachment 172921 [details] [diff] [review]) directly addresses this problem. I.e., in that case, we're
retrieving the list of new Msg IDs from the POP server and getting interrupted.
Here we're retrieving a single message body. Probably the same section of code
(POP3_ERROR_DONE case) is involved, but it seems to be a different set of
preconditions.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Zeque]

Resolved in 1.0.7(20050923)

Thank You Very Much!!!
Zeque