46184 - Can't stop download of attached web page in mail; crashes eventually

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Networking, defect, P3)

Description

[Phil Peterson]

Using 7/21 commercial build on NT

1. Use Send Page to mail yourself a large web page (my example was from cnn.com)
2. Download the message over a slow link (I was using a 56k modem)
3. Realizing that the message will take a long time to download, click the Stop
button

Expected: message to stop downloading
Actual: message continues to download

While trying to experiment with ways to stop this download, I tried to delete ir
and click on other messages. After fooling around with it a little, I got into a
state where clicking on other messages didn't load them in the message pane.
Seeking to reset that situation, I closed the mail window, and crashed.

Comment 1

[Phil Peterson]

add correctness, nsbeta3 keywords

Comment 2

[lchiang]

Do you have a talkback for the crash, Phil?  We have a bug where deleting the 
last mail message in the thread pane will get into a state where selecting a new 
message will not display contents in the message pane and you'll get multiple 
messages selected. Eventually a crash happens.  Wanted to compare your stack 
trace with that one.

Comment 3

[Phil Peterson]

Talkback and SERA seem not to play nicely, but I'll see what I can do

Comment 4

[Scott MacGregor]

triaging.

Comment 5

[Phil Peterson]

I got one talkback report filed but it doesn't contain a stack trace :-(

Comment 6

[Blake Ross]

spam: Adding crash keyword...

Comment 7

[lchiang]

+ per mail triage

Comment 8

[lchiang]

We need to try to reproduce this if possible.

Comment 9

[lchiang]

second pass: - per mail triage

Peter - can you still try to reproduce to see if this is easy to reproduce.

Comment 10

[pmock]

Scott & Phil,

I could not reproduce this problem on my compaq laptop 566mhz over a 56k modem
connection running Windows ME.  I sent myself the cnn web page and I was able to
cancel the download using the stop button the data transfer.  I tried in the
message window and message pane.
The build that I was testing with was the branch commercial win32 build
2000-101213-mn6.

Comment 11

[scottputterman]

sorry for the extra email. Removing mail2 keyword.

Comment 12

[scottputterman]

Esther, can we try to reproduce this again? If not can we mark WFM.  This worked
for me, but I'll let someone else try it out.  There's a possibility that in the
3 months between the time Phil reported the bug and pmock tested the bug that we
improved stopping display messages.

Comment 13

[esther]

I will try this on the dial-up system in the lab and then again at home. It will
take at least the rest of the day to check this one out.

Comment 14

[esther]

Using 6.01 on home dial up system 14,400bps I don't crash Stopping a download of
a Send CNN Page to my imap mail account.  It's very slow, but the Stop did so
immediately.  When I clicked on another msg (a simple one that had not been
opened before) it seemed to open up slower than I expected.  I went to the cnn
mail msg several times and stopped the process.  Again it stopped immediately,
but opening other mail messages appeared to be too slow.   I will download a
more current daily build and try this again to see if the slowness problem
improves.  I will try this again at work tomorrow on the dial up system to see
if I can get a crash.  

Comment 15

[esther]

Using 6.1 at work on a dial up system and again with lastest commercial build
with (20010221) dial-up system the Stop, stopped the download and I was able to
view other messages without crashing.  I selected this cnn message several
times, stopping the download then selecting other messages still no crash or
failure to stop.  I believe this is worksforme now and will mark it and verify
it.  Phil if you experience this again or think it's not fixed please reopen and
comment.   

Comment 16

[esther]

Verified as worksforme