298425 - Some messages, while downloaded for offline use, still report as being unavailable for offline

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 297776

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Chris Withers]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: 1.0.2 (20050317)

I make extensive use of Thunderbird's offline folders feature 'cos I do most of
my mail reading on a train. Of late, I've been having problems where not all
messages are getting downloaded for no apparent reason Sad

I'll click on a message and get the usual kiss of death message about the
message not being available.

Really annoyingly, sometimes, although less frequently of late, I CAN view the
message by switching Thunderbird to "online" mode, even when I have NO internet
connection. 

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Click offline button in bottom left of window
2.wait for all mail to download and offline button to change to its "offline" state
3. Try and view a message that was downloaded for offline use, either in the
inbox, or another IMAP folder

Actual Results:  
The kiss of death message:
"""
The body of this message has not been downloaded from the server for reading
offline. To read this message, you must reconnect to the network, choose Offline
from the File menu and then select Work Online.In the future, you can select
which messages or folders to read offline. To do this, choose Offline from the
file menu and then select Synchronize. You can adjust the Disk Space preference
to prevent the downloading of large messages.
"""


Expected Results:  
I should have been shown the message tha twas downloaded for offline use ;-)

Really annoyingly, sometimes, although less frequently of late, I CAN view the
message by switching Thunderbird to "online" mode, even when I have NO internet
connection.

However, even this doesn't work sometimes :-(

I was tempted to put this as "Critical" because it's almost data loss until I
can get online again, but resisted the temptation, even though it's so damn
frustrating :-(

Comment 1

[Scott Renner]

Sounds like the bug I reported in #297776.  I've had to switch back to Mozilla
1.7.8 for email until this gets fixed.

Comment 2

[David :Bienvenu]

I tried this, and had the same problem :-( the problem is that the offline flag
isn't getting set on the messages.

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

it looks to me like we're not writing out the envelope line anymore, between
offline messages. Or the x-mozilla-status lines, which means we're not getting
into nsMsgDBFolder::WriteStartOfNewLocalMessage

Comment 4

[David :Bienvenu]

are you running Google Desktop search?

Comment 5

[Chris Withers]

Yes I am.
Why? Does this have an impact?
I'll try uninstalling it now...

Comment 6

[Chris Withers]

...uninstalling GDS seems to have made a positive difference, I'll know more
once I've road tested it on this morning's train journey...

Comment 7

[David :Bienvenu]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 297776 ***