389836 - POP3 send/receive mangles sentence beginning "From" to ">From"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 121946

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Alan Robertson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.12) Gecko/20070718 Fedora/1.5.0.12-4.fc6 Firefox/1.5.0.12
Build Identifier: version 1.5.0.12 (20070719)

Two problems with similar issue.

Receiving an email via POP3 that has a sentence beginning with "From" (note not lowercase on the first letter, that works fine) the From is altered to be ">From". This only happens on the first sentence beginning "From". 

Sending email from a POP3 account causes email to be stored in "Sent items" the same way ">From" although the receiving account gets the email as sent. Unlike the receive all sentences beginning with "From" get altered to ">From"

Accessing the exact same email account via IMAP and replicating the same steps works as expected.

This bug has been tested in many previous releases of Thunderbird prior to 1.5x with exactly the same result. Other installs on seperate distributions accessing different accounts - same result.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Send an email from a remote account with the body of the message containing 6 lines of alternating "From" and "from" (without the quotes)

2. On receipt of email via POP3 account the first "From" line will read ">From"

3. For the second part using the Thunderbird POP3 account send a new email with the same type of message body. All lines beginning with the Capital "From" will be in "Sent Items" as ">From"
Actual Results:  
Example from first case (from Inbox)
=======================

>From out of nowhere

from out of nowhere

From out of nowhere

from out of nowhere

From out of nowhere

Example from second case (from Sent Items)
========================

>From out of nowhere

from out of nowhere

>From out of nowhere

from out of nowhere

>From out of nowhere

Expected Results:  
Expected from first case
========================

From out of nowhere

from out of nowhere

From out of nowhere

from out of nowhere

From out of nowhere

Expected from second case (from Sent Items)
========================

From out of nowhere

from out of nowhere

From out of nowhere

from out of nowhere

From out of nowhere

Haven't tested to see if same results are obtained using full US settings. Above comes from machines using GB character sets and region settings.

LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"
Distributions verified on: Fedora Cores 3,4,5,6 and Kubuntu

Thunderbird language settings English/United Kingdom.

Any other information required drop me an email :)

Thanks.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Also bug 121947