330680 - Wrong account selected when replying to an email in TB 1.5

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 327713

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[MA]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

The first account configured is a gmail account in POP
The second account configuration is provider-specific POP account.

When replying to an email from the first account, the compose window defaults to the second account, including email address and signature.

The occurence is not constant, but should be around 10% of the time.

OTOMH, it sounds like  a race condition


Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Thunderbird 1.5
2. Open first account
3. Select a message and right-click "Reply"
4. Observe the compose window
5. Repeat 3-4 until the account in the address bar is wrong

Actual Results:  
In some cases, the email address is of the 2nd account, and there is no signature

Expected Results:  
The compose window should have the email address of the 1st account, with its signature

Default theme.
Dell Latitude D505
Windows XP

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Worksforme. Any chance you clicked the other account in between? 

Comment 2

[MA]

Negative.

The test was done by right-clicking on a random message, selecting reply, and observing the address in the compose window. When the behaviour was not visible, the test was repeated with another message until I had an occurence, normally within 10 emails.

My mouse has a very insenstive scrolling wheel that makes sound when used, and I don't remember hearing it turn in between either. This could be re-verified.

Comment 3

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

(In reply to comment #0)
> 2. Open first account
> 3. Select a message and right-click "Reply"
> 4. Observe the compose window
> 5. Repeat 3-4 until the account in the address bar is wrong
> 
> Actual Results:  
> In some cases, the email address is of the 2nd account

MA, what X-Account-Key: is set for the mails you tried to reply?
Same X-Account-Key: value when "not wrong" pre-set From: address and when "wrong" pre-set From: address?

See Bug 327713.
In additipon to situation written in Bug 327713(moving mail to other account when non Global Inbox), other situations exist(occur even when Global Inbox).
 (A) The mail was received when current account-1 was defined as account-2 in
     the past, and the mail has "X-Account-Key: account-2", and the mail was
     imported or copied to current account-1 after re-definition of accounts
     (account-1 is defined as account-1), then account-2 is choosed. 
 (B) The mail was received when current account-1 was defined as account-X
     in the past, and the mail has "X-Account-Key: account-X", and the mail was
     imported or copied to current account-1 after re-definition of accounts,
     but account-X doesn't exist, then default account (current account-2)
     is choosed.

Comment 4

[MA]

The X-Account-Key is different indeed between emails in the same account.

I had the same error appearing today, on emails I got yesterday. I am
wondering if I did not open another mailbox as those emails were
downloaded. If one thread looks at the currently selected account to
tag the email then we could have this behaviour...

However, there is no notion of what the account was in the past in my
case, as I did not delete accounts or anything like that.

I was TB 1.5.0.2 at the time of getting those emails. The problem occured before and after the upgrade, although I did not try to duplicate the theory I just mention.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

so is/is not a dupe of Bug 327713?