305229 - Importing Emailed Events Hangs Calendar Add-in on Slow Processor Machines

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 212792

(Calendar :: Sunbird Only, defect)

Description

[Webb, Paul]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

Hi all,
   My wife and I want to make use of the Calendar Add-in for Mozilla Thunderbird
to keep track of the daily events we need to stay aware of. The plan is/was that
when either of us create a calendar entry, we email it to the other. In this way
we can keep our individual calendars, but also stay up on events concerning
ourselves or our children.

Three machines are being used in this bug report:
   My Laptop (P4 2.66 GHz).
   My Wife's PC (P3 866 MHz).
   My PC (P3 866 MHz).

   If she creates an event on her PC and emails it to me, I receive it on my
laptop and can import it by clicking on the attachment in the email and
selecting Open. I experience no errors or hangs.

   If I create an event on my Laptop and email it to her, she receives it and
when she tries to import it on her PC by selecting Open on the attachment, the
main Calendar screen appears with an hourglass. The machine sits like this until
the program is terminated through Task Manager. We let it sit for an hour to
make sure this was the case.

   From there, I tried create an event from her machine and emailing it to my
email address. I then sat down at my home PC (same specifications as hers, more
or less) and tried selecting Open on the attachment. My machine hung similarly.

   As another test, I created an event from my laptop and emailed it to my home
machine. I selected Open on the attachment on my home machine and it hung.

   The final test I have done is to open the emails mentioned above (that hung
our slower machines) on my laptop. They import just fine.

   Additionally, if I take the same attachment in the slower processor machines
and Save it to my Windows Desktop, then Import it (File -> Import), it imports
just fine.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create an event.
2. Email it to someone (right click on the event, select Email Selected Events).
3. Receive it at the destination email address.
4. Open the email.
5. Double-click on the attachment in the email, or right-click on it and select
Open.
Actual Results:  
The slower processor systems hung. See "Details" above.

Expected Results:  
Imported the entry. See "Details" above.

Briefly, here's the specs of each machine being used:

   My (Work) Laptop: 2.66 GHz processor; 512 MB RAM; 30 GB HDD.
   Her PC: 866 MHz processor; 384 MB RAM; 15 GB HDD.
   My (Home) PC: 866 MHz processor; 512 MB RAM; 10 GB HDD.

All systems are running:
   Windows XP Service Pack 2.
   Mozilla Thunderbird version 1.0.2 (20050317), Default theme selected
   Calendar Extension 2005011112-cal

Comment 1

[Webb, Paul]

Closing this on my own, as it appears to be a duplicate of <A 
HREF="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212792">212792</A>.

I too am running IMAP, and the problem appears to be resolved if I set the 
containing folder for offline use in Thunderbird.

Can this be resolved (streaming data from IMAP == failed calendar import)?

Thanks all!


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 212792 ***