393276 - Webmail extension for Yahoo 1.2.2 (for Yahoo Beta) doesn't handle mail with ampersands in subject

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Nolan Leasy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.6 (20070728)

There appears to be a problem with the webmail extension for Yahoo 1.2.2 on the Beta site.  Any time you include an ampersand in the title it fails with the following error:

"An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: Error sending email. Please check the message and try again."

The error console says "sMsgComposeService is not defined" and the details are as follows:

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//@line 39 "/cygdrive/e/builds/tinderbox/Tb-Mozilla1.8-Release/WINNT_5.0_Depend/mozilla/mail/components/compose/content/MsgComposeCommands.js"

/**
 * interfaces
 */
const nsIMsgCompDeliverMode = Components.interfaces.nsIMsgCompDeliverMode;
const nsIMsgCompSendFormat = Components.interfaces.nsIMsgCompSendFormat;
const nsIMsgCompConvertible = Components.interfaces.nsIMsgCompConvertible;
const nsIMsgCompType = Components.interfaces.nsIMsgCompType;
const nsIMsgCompFormat = Components.interfaces.nsIMsgCompFormat;
const nsIAbPreferMailFormat = Components.interfaces.nsIAbPreferMailFormat;
const nsIPlaintextEditorMail = Components.interfaces.nsIPlaintextEditor;
const nsISupportsString = Components.interfaces.nsISupportsString;
const mozISpellCheckingEngine = Components.interfaces.mozISpellCheckingEngine;

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Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Switch to Yahoo Beta on the web site and in the webmail extension for Yahoo 1.2.2.

2. Compose any email with an ampersand in the subject line (i.e., "this & that").

3. Try to send the message.

Actual Results:  
Message errors out.

Expected Results:  
Success send.

This started occurring on the same day that webmail began failing for the "production" Yahoo mail site.  In that case, sending mail works fine, but downloading POP mail fails.  Absolutely no configuration changes had occurred in the TB client.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Please file bugs in the Webmail extension where the author will see them - which is apparently http://groups.google.com/group/thunderbird-webmail-extension - rather than here.