519699 - Wrong 'From' character encoding in some messages in message list

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, defect)

Description

[Valery Kondakoff]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20090930 Shredder/3.0pre

Several messages displayed in message list pane has wrong 'From' character encoding. The same field is displayed in correct encoding in message header pane and in thread summary pane.

Here are screenshots: 
http://www.rugby-forum.ru/temp/enc.jpg
http://www.rugby-forum.ru/temp/enc1.jpg

And here is a screenshot of the sources of the message in question:
http://www.rugby-forum.ru/temp/enc2.jpg

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Related to bug #508745: probably we can merge this error in only one. I cannot find any similar bug already open.

Comment 3

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Would be nice to have a testcase showing this behavior can the reporters save one of the emails showing this in .eml format and attach it to this bug ?

Comment 4

[Valery Kondakoff]

Attachment: This is the message which 'From' field is displayed in wrong encoding in the message list

Comment 5

[Valery Kondakoff]

Неrе it is (attached)

Comment 6

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Confirmed here on 

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5pre) Gecko/20091019 Lightning/1.0pre Shredder/3.0pre ID:20091019031614

Comment 7

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

ps: importing the mail testcase in my Inbox local folders with ImportExportTools (Mboximport enhanced) 2.3.0.2

Comment 8

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

And can we get a screenshot too ?

Comment 9

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Attachment: screenshot

I see in mail source that there is:

Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.valuehost.ru)

this sound me familiar (as a know issue, but I'm not sure)

Comment 12

[okohurgo]

As far as I understand, this bug is related to MSF files. After changing the encoding through preferences, most probably the MSF files are not updated regularly. So, the from field is fetched with wrong encoding from the MSF files where the message itself is read with the correct encoding from the source. Two different occurences I've been faced before, are solved by removing the MSF files to force file recreation.

Comment 13

[okohurgo]

Reference: Two cases I've been encountered before are the ones listed in Bug 656564.

Comment 14

[okohurgo]

Additional info:

Temporary solution:

1. Set message display default character encoding to ISO-8859-1
2. Shutdown Seamonkey
3. Delete the msf file
4. Start Seamonkey

Comment 15

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Valery, okohurgo,
do you still see this problem?