352652 - When composing mail, continuous text with no word-spaces does not wrap. When using 'Forward' and adding comments within given text, even text with spaces does not wrap.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Michael Graubart]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7pre) Gecko/20060824 SeaMonkey/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7pre) Gecko/20060824 SeaMonkey/1.0.4

When composing new mail, if one types an unbroken sequence of characters without spaces, it will extend indefinitely to the right without breaking to the next line after the limit set in Preferences is reached.

When forwarding a received e-mail and adding comments within paragraphs of the received text, these will extend indefinitely to the right even if they have normal word-spaces.

I have observed this in SeaMonkey 1.0.4 and also in Mozilla 1.7.13.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Ensure that in Prefs. > Mail & Newsgroups > Composition, 'Wrap plain text messages at … characters is set to, e.g., 72 characters.
2.Open Mail & Newsgroups > Compose.
3.Type an unbroken sequence of characters.

4.Open a received and downloaded e-mail.
5.Click 'Forward'.
6.Move insertion point to somewhere within a paragraph, press 'Return' and type a comment (with or without word-spaces).

Actual Results:  
In both cases the newly-typed text continues to extend to the right instead of breaking to the next line after the preset (e.g. 72-character) line-length limit has been reached.

Expected Results:  
In both cases, the text should break to the next line.

eMac G4 (PPC), OSX 10.4.7.

Comment 1

[Michael Graubart]

Attachment: E-mail with full headers, saved as an HTML file.

Comment 2

[Michael Graubart]

Sorry — I seem to have sent this with the attachment, but without my comment. What I said was: the first part of this bug (continuous string of characters in a new mail) is still present in SeaMonkey 1.0.5. But the second part (adding comments when forwarding a pre-received e-mail) turns out to be specific to certain e-mails, and my attachment is an example of one in which this happens.

Comment 3

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

Hello,
the unbroken sequence of characters should not be wrapped even according to RFC2646 (paragraph 4.1), so this particular issue is OK.

when adding comments to paragraphs, paragraphs should be re-wrapped and quotes restored, so this should be solved by mozilla

Comment 4

[Michael Graubart]

This bug (both versions: new text without spaces and 'Forward' with spaces) is still present in both SM 1.1.2 and the trunk build. Incidentally, using 'Reply' and typing a reply with word spaces within the original message, the text does wrap properly.

Comment 5

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Can you reproduce with SeaMonkey v1.1.9 ?
Can you reproduce with SeaMonkey v2.0a1pre (which has a crash reporter) ?

Comment 6

[timeless]

i don't see any reason why the reported behavior here would be considered a bug.