492109 - Strange listing behaviour in Thunderbird 3.0b2

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, defect)

Description

[Matěj Cepl]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; cs-CZ; rv:1.9.1b4) Gecko/20090427 Fedora/3.5-0.20.beta4.fc11 Firefox/3.5b4
Build Identifier: thunderbird-3.0-2.1.beta2.fc11.x86_64

(originally filed as https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495983)

I hope ( :-) ) it is a behaviour that can be changed in the configuration
editor, but as I'm not sure, I preferr to open this report.

Well, I think that we can have a clear view of what is the strange behaviour
I'm encountering with Thunderbird 3.0b2 by looking at these screenshots:
http://dev.techtemple.org/thunderbird-3.0-2.1.beta2/

[Image 1] displays the e-mails (sorted by date) of our public fedora-test-list
mailing list. As anyone can see, there's one e-mail with "Draft email to
maintainers regarding Priority / Severity in Bugzilla" as subject and a bunch
of replies that - as per RFC / MUA - must contain "Re:" in the subject line.
Instead, this mail view often hide "Re:" but [Image 3] confirms that the "Re:"
prefix is displayed only by selecting and opening the message.

[Image 2] also show a broken (IMHO) thread-view mixing different subjects.

Any further details needed will be provided immediately. As I've also other
mailboxes set up on it, I saw that it only affects my IMAP e-mail account
powered by Zimbra Server.

(after getting a question about -safe-mode):

It did not work even in safe mode (and, no, I don't use any plug-in) , but I've
figured out at least what could be the problem. 

1 - I've removed my old ~/.thunderbird/ directory and created a new profile. 
2 - After that, I've created my own message filters, similars to:

"Move message to $imap_folder WHEN TO or CC == $e-mail_address"

Since then, all the incoming mails are displayed as you saw in my screenshots.

Why I'm saying that? Because I tried to disable the filters and everything work
as expected.

I also tried to enable the logging but it doesn't help (it only says '$msg
moved to $folder').

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.see above
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
display of threaded messages confused,
missing parts of Subjects

Expected Results:  
orderly results

Comment 1

[Gianluca Varisco]

I've just tested 'Gecko/20090513 Fedora/3.0-2.4.b3pre.hg.6a6386c16e98.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0b3pre' [as per https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:QA_TestDay:2009-05-14 ] and the bug (?) seems to be fixed now.

Comment 2

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

Thanks.  Marking WORKSFORME then.