415453 - Sent mail garbled in sent mail box after 2/1/08

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect)

Description

[Ryan Blackman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 4.0)
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 

Just out of the blue, all sent mail from 2/1/08 through today appears garbled or in a weird illegible code in the sent mail folder. I updated from Version 1.5, created a new profile, restarted my computer and sent a test email to another account, but the problem still exists. The emails arrive fine, but are garbled in my sent mail folder.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Not sure how to reproduce, this problem just happened 

Actual Results:  
Still broken

Expected Results:  
Still broken

All old emails from 1/31 and later are ok and appear fine in the sent mailbox...not sure what happened, but can forward a garbled email from my sent box if you like

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

If the folder properties "Rebuild index" doesn't help, attach a screenshot.

Comment 2

[Zach Hamilton]

I'm having this same issue and it is a huge hassle! It first began several weeks ago, when emails I sent suddenly started appearing strangely in my Sent box, even though they went through just fine. My Sent folder was overdue to be compacted, and after I did that, the problem went away for a couple weeks. Then, a couple of weeks ago, it started up again. 

I compacted my Sent folder--nothing. I rebuilt my index, and it deleted all messages sent since 4/8/08! And new sent messages still either don't display at all or are strangely truncated. They don't show at all any more! Does anyone have any solutions to this?

Comment 3

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Ryan or Zach could attach an email example here using above "Add an attachment" link?

Comment 4

[Zach Hamilton]

Sorry, Aureliano, I haven't even thought about this problem in many months. We switched to Outlook 2007 and have been very happy with it. There are a few quirks, but none of the strange, destructive bugs that plagued Thunderbird.

Comment 5

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Ok Zach, thanks anyway.

Closing as Incomplete for comment #4.