317144 - message body not displayed - but not a "too many IMAP connections" problem

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Jason Haar]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.5-rc1

I've just been hit by this issue.

I clicked on a new message in Thunderbird and up came the body in the preview pane. Then I clicked on the next messgage, and - nothing. I then clicked back on the previous message (which I just viewed successfully) and it re-appeared as it should. Then I clicked again on the one that failed - and this time I saw the body of the previous message!

Doing a View Source brought up an empty pane. Clicking on other new message also failed - showing the body of the last one successfully viewed.

I am using Courier-IMAP, but have MAXPERIP=100, and doing a "ps" on the IMAP server showed <20 connections IN TOTAL open - so it's not a congestion issue as other bug reports I've seen on this have been.

I then entered other folders - thunderbird reported connecting->downloading->etc and they viewed fine. Going back to the folder that was "broken" didn't fix the problem

I then went offline (don't download) and online. Didn't fix the problem

I then exited thunderbird and restarted it. Problem solved.



Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce

Comment 1

[heslo04]

It happens sometimes on Windows2k, too... and sometimes while saving attachement, they have 0 size. Repeated action corrects the problem, but it happens quite often.

Comment 2

[heslo04]

It happens sometimes on Windows2k, too... and sometimes while saving
attachement, they have 0 size. Repeated action corrects the problem, but it
happens quite often.

Comment 3

[tb_bug]

i do have the exact problems as described in the original bugreport.

(In reply to comment #0)
> I then exited thunderbird and restarted it. Problem solved.

this doesn't fix my problem. closing and restarting thunderbird doesn't let me see the mail.

> Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce

couldn't actively reproduce the problem, but happens sometimes (since ca. 0.8)

my TB: 1.5.0.5 (2006719)

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

TB wrote: "I quick-checked the problem with 2.0.0.5 and couldn't reproduce it."
No response from reporter, so => WFM.  Please reopen if you see this problem in TB 2.