301948 - mail folder contents wont display unles I try many times

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 300749

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[martin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716

when I select the ANTLR mailing list folder (among local folders) its contents
display, but later when I select another folder, say BLAH, the ANTLR
contents/mails stay. If I at this point select any other folder and then
reselect folder BLAH I see its proper contents directly. So the problem occurs
ONLY if I had previously viewed the ANTLR contents/mails. Obviously something is
wrong with the ANTLR folder, but I don't know what is is. Actually its not just
the ANTLR folder but also the Harmony folder and the OpenBEOS/Haiku folder. It
shows the same problems, if I select the harmony folder its mails show but then
when I select some other folder the mails pane still shows harmony mails (until
I click inbox or whatever and the reselect the folder I actually wanted to see).

since I suspect that its a problem with these specific folders you might wanna
have a look at them (usually, they are a subdir of local folders):
http://mnemo.minimum.se/bugged_mozilla_folders/folders.zip

now, i did have one problem which could have caused this corrupted folders
problem. i tried to create a folder called "java" and the folder was created but
the input-new-folder-name reappeared for some mystical reason (not diskspace
issue though). im just speculating here, but suppose the folder creation process
is like like doSomethingA(); doSomethingB(); and what if the second part failed.
maybe there was not a proper cleanup made? that code is my guess for the culprit
here.

ps. I dont have any problems with lack of diskspace and I have not had such
problems in the last few months either. the problems started when I upgraded
from 1.7.2 (or was it 1.7.3 perhaps) to 1.7.10

ps. im so tired right now, sorry for the bad english and the lazy formatting.
i've been up way to many hours, and my wireless keyboard doesnt work right so it
ignores every third key -- which makes typing a pain.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. see above for reprod, but you need mail folders I guess

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

are you blocking remote images? if so, this is a dup of  Bug 300749

Comment 2

[OstGote!]

Feel free to reopen if this is not your problem.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 300749 ***

Comment 3

[martin]

David, exactly what do you mean by "blocking remote images"? Where in prefs can 
I see this?

Comment 4

[martin]

I recognize thay many my symptoms are similar to bug 300749 however, I only 
have problems with a few special folders. It should be noted though, that all 
the folders I have a problem with where created using 1.7.10, all working 
folders where created using 1.7.3 or earlier versions (i've not upgraded in a 
while).

I will wait for bug 300749 to be fixed (which I suspect will be very soon, 
given how serious it is) and then I will see if my problem persists. If it does 
I will reopen this one as a unique bug. Meanwhile please tell me where I can 
see that "blocking remote images" prefs setting? 

Comment 5

[David :Bienvenu]

edit | preferences | privacy & security | Images - do not load remote images in
 mail & newsgroup messages.

If that doesn't fix the problem, then you have a different problem, I believe.
You might check the file permissions on those local folders - there were some
regressions having to do with file permissions but I thought those were all
fixed before 1.7.10 was released.

Comment 6

[martin]

That DID solve my problem! Thanks David!

So, you do know if this problem fixed in CVS yet?

Comment 7

[David :Bienvenu]

it's not, but there is a patch in bug 300749 - just waiting for approval to
check it in.