417806 - Unable to forward or reply to specific message ( multipart/mixed { text/plain part with null lines only + message/rfc822 attachment }, so null is quoted by Reply/Forward inline )

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Matt Dudziak]

The problem is that attempting to forward or reply to a specific message fails. A new comp window is created, but most of the message body from the original email is not included.

To reproduce:
- Open message (attached to this bug)
- Attempt to reply to or forward message
- Note that message body is not included in the comp window.

Comment 1

[Matt Dudziak]

Attachment: Problem message for which forward and reply fail

Comment 2

[Matt Dudziak]

Problem still present in Eudora 8.0.0b4.

Comment 3

[Matt Dudziak]

Problem is also present in Thunderbird so assigning to the Thunderbird team to get more eyes looking at this.

Comment 4

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

Have you checked mail source? Where is viewable "message body" strings in the original email?
Data in "message body" part(=first text/plain part of multipart/mixed mail) consists of null lines only. See the mail with "View/Display Attachments Inline=unchecked".

Comment 5

[Satish Alwani]

Okay I am currently using shredder (nightlies) and yes I have updated versions. I am facing something similar to this. When i respond to a message i get the original message of maybe 1 line. And above that it will give me the caret to type (how it should). (i have it reply on top).

This doesnt happen all the time, however, when it does happen it happens a few times in a row. Then I have to double click a particular message, then reply to that, and it will quote the original message correctly.

The problem is, this problem happens randomly and is difficult to predict when it will happen enough to reproduce it. Sometimes it wont happen for a day or so, sometimes it will happen 4-5 times in 1 day.

Comment 6

[Stan Hoeppner]

I have this, or a very similar problem, with signed messages.  I've never received an encrypted message, but my guess is the problem will appear in that case as well.  With display attachments inline enabled, I can see the whole message in preview or in its own window, including the PGP signed plain text message body.  With this view option disabled, nothing shows except a signature.  When I attempt to reply to the message, all I see in the compose window are a few lines from the header, such as date/time, from, and a MIME information stamp.  None of the message body is quoted in the compose window.  It would seem during the reply process, some code is not properly processing the PGP/MIME attachments and is simply discarding them, or, it is purely ignoring the attachments from the get go, even though the entire message body is one of said attachments.  On advice, I installed Enigmail and GnuPG in an attempt to fix the problem, but the reply-quote problem still persists for PGP signed messages (and likely for others).  Again, I only have this problem with multi part signed messages.  As you can see in the email itself, my friend apparently doesn't have this problem.  He's on a newer version of Windows, and I don't know if he's IMAP/POP or what he uses to grab/store his mail.

T-Bird version 2.0.0.22 (20090605)
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.13) Gecko/2009073022 Firefox/3.0.13
Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195] SP4
My mailbox is stored on a MS Exchange 5.5 server and I access it via IMAP.  I have about 30 subscribed folders.

This is all I get in my reply compose window:

Blaine Fleming put forth on 8/1/2009 7:56 PM:
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Subject:
> Date:
> Sat, 1 Aug 2009 20:04:00 -0500
> 
> MIME-Version:
> 1.0
> Content-Type:
> multipart/mixed; boundary="----_=_NextPart_002_01CA130D.17E10188"
> 
> 

This is the complete message source:

From - Sat Aug 01 20:03:59 2009
X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
Received: from greer.hardwarefreak.com ([192.168.100.9]) by ramius.hardwarefreak.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21)
	id PY1FYYDS; Sat, 1 Aug 2009 19:56:46 -0500
Received: from mx1.mfn.org (mx1.mfn.org [204.238.179.8])
	by greer.hardwarefreak.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A27583DA160
	for <[e-mail]>; Sat,  1 Aug 2009 19:56:44 -0500 (CDT)
Received: from home.mfn.org (home.mfn.org [204.238.179.3])
	by mx1.mfn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BF87243BB;
	Sat,  1 Aug 2009 19:56:37 -0500 (CDT)
Received: from onefish.servers.nj.binarymonkey.com
	(onefish.servers.nj.binarymonkey.com [207.192.72.228])
	by spam-l.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n720uUK9070858
	for <[e-mail]>; Sat, 1 Aug 2009 19:56:30 -0500 (CDT)
	(envelope-from [e-mail])
Received: from onefish.servers.nj.binarymonkey.com (localhost [127.0.0.1])
	by onefish.servers.nj.binarymonkey.com (BinaryMonkey-MX) with ESMTP id
	03E1C93A0
	for <[e-mail]>; Sat,  1 Aug 2009 20:56:30 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from [192.168.1.253] (75-175-169-17.blng.qwest.net [75.175.169.17])
	(using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits))
	(No client certificate requested)
	by onefish.servers.nj.binarymonkey.com (BinaryMonkey-MX) with ESMTPSA
	id 8C0138140
	for <[e-mail]>; Sat,  1 Aug 2009 20:56:29 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
From: Blaine Fleming <[e-mail]>
Reply-To: "A discussion forum for spam & related issues."
	 <[e-mail]>
To: "A discussion forum for spam & related issues." <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: [Spam-l] [BLOCK] Mozilla T-Bird signed message handling issue
	s
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 19:56:26 -0500 
MIME-Version: 1.0
List-Help: <mailto:[e-mail]?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://spam-l.com/mailman/listinfo/spam-l>,<mailto:[e-mail]?subject=subscribe>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://spam-l.com/mailman/options/spam-l>,<mailto:[e-mail]?subject=unsubscribe>
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
	boundary="----_=_NextPart_000_01CA130D.17E10188"

This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand
this format, some or all of this message may not be legible.

------_=_NextPart_000_01CA130D.17E10188
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset="iso-8859-1"

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------_=_NextPart_000_01CA130D.17E10188
Content-Type: message/rfc822

Subject: 
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 20:04:00 -0500 
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
	boundary="----_=_NextPart_002_01CA130D.17E10188"


------_=_NextPart_002_01CA130D.17E10188
Content-Type: text/plain



------_=_NextPart_002_01CA130D.17E10188
Content-Type: text/plain;
	name="ATT00662.txt"
Content-Disposition: attachment;
	filename="ATT00662.txt"

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Blaine, do signed messages in your inbox have the paperclip icon?

Yes, they do.  Signed mail arrives with two attachments.  The first is
"Part 1.1.2" which is the PGP signature and the second is "Part 1.2"
which contains the following:

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The actual message contents show inline for me with no problems.  They
always have for me even before I installed Enigmail.  I'm currently
running 2.0.0.22 on XP64 and the only problem I have is with mail that
has both SMIME *and* PGP signatures.

- --Blaine
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32)

iEYEARECAAYFAkp05DoACgkQLp9/dJH6k+MSZQCeNXZhJ7LEq8yn6fdfvpJa0dgX
S5UAnipb9ZCsLvfTprg4HkTDsqNVcwbm
=ZMVc
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

------_=_NextPart_002_01CA130D.17E10188--

------_=_NextPart_000_01CA130D.17E10188--

Comment 7

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

(In reply to comment #6)

Stan Hoeppner, never paste long data to bug. Save in a file and attach the file to this bug via "Add an attachment" link in a bug report at B.M.O. if required, please.

Comment 8

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

This could be duplicate of bug 313401 thoughts ?

Comment 9

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

(In reply to Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul] (away until August 5th) from comment #8)
> This could be duplicate of bug 313401 thoughts ?

No.
That bug is for problem with HTML mail(multipart/related), Simple HTML mode, and <html> tag with attribute value.  

If mail of multipart/mixed { text/plain + message/rfc822 attachment } ), I think "quoting of original message body in Tb's Forward in inline" == "quote of text/plain part".