536545 - Message in reply to MIME message cannot be saved

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Hendrik Maryns]

1. look for a message which contains other messages attached (e.g. a newsletter with MIME)
2. open an attached message by double-clicking
3. reply to the opened message

The reply message cannot be saved.  After some minutes of composing, a dialog pops up saying the message cannot be saved.  Sending works fine.

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Hendrik,

Does this happens in -safe-mode (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode) ?

Are you using POP/Imap, what kind of folder is your draft folder (a local folder, an imap folder) ?

Comment 2

[Hendrik Maryns]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Does this happens in -safe-mode (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode) ?

Yes.

> Are you using POP/Imap, what kind of folder is your draft folder (a local
> folder, an imap folder) ?

Everything is IMAP: imap://[e-mail]/%5BGoogle%20Mail%5D/Concepten

Comment 3

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Can you share an example and attach it to this bug ?

Comment 4

[Hendrik Maryns]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Can you share an example and attach it to this bug ?

What do you mean with example?  A message to which this happens?  It happens all the time.  It already happened in 2.0, I hoped it would be over by now, but no.

Comment 5

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > Can you share an example and attach it to this bug ?
> 
> What do you mean with example?  A message to which this happens?  It happens

Yes

> all the time.  It already happened in 2.0, I hoped it would be over by now, but
> no.

With all messages ? Then it might be that something is misconfigured.

What do you have in Tools -> Account Settings ->Copies and Folders at When sending messages, Automatically ...

Comment 6

[Hendrik Maryns]

(In reply to comment #5)
> 
> What do you have in Tools -> Account Settings ->Copies and Folders at When
> sending messages, Automatically ...

To save a copy in ‘Another folder’, namely Sent messages under [Google Mail], so that’d be 
imap://[e-mail]/%5BGoogle%20Mail%5D/Sent

This happens in all of the Thunderbirds I have ever used, on several different computers, both under Windows and Linux.

Comment 7

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

And you are only using Gmail right ? Does it go away if you choose to sent it to some other folder ?

This WFM.

Comment 8

[Hendrik Maryns]

Attachment: Mail message with MIME attachment

This is a message with which the bug occurs, as requested (as I said, it happens with any MIME attachment).

Furthermore, I forgot to mention the error message: 

Niet gelukt om uw bericht als concept te bewaren.
Ga na of uw e-mail- & nieuwsgroepaccountinstellingen juist zijn en probeer het
opnieuw.

(see
http://mxr.mozilla.org/l10n-central/source/nl/mail/chrome/messenger/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties#50
and #187)

The title of the dialog is ‘Fout bij opslaan van concept’ (#176)

Comment 9

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

I'm spammed the mozilla-nl folks while replying to both the email and the attached digest. So again this WFM for Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1.

Hendrik where do you live in NL? (I'm in den haag, maybe we could meet to solve see the issue)

Comment 10

[Hendrik Maryns]

(In reply to comment #7)
> And you are only using Gmail right ? Does it go away if you choose to sent it
> to some other folder ?
> 
> This WFM.

It happened before I started using Gmail.

I didn’t notice your spamming on our mailinglist, I suppose the moderator did :-)

(I’m not in NL, yet, maybe next year.  Now Tübingen, Germany.)

Comment 11

[Lewis Rosenthal]

I have been seeing this with the most recent SeaMonkey builds (~2.5 and newer) on OS/2 (I haven't checked on other platforms, yet, though I do have a couple Linux boxes available, as well as Win32).

Presently, I am running:

Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; Warp 4.5; rv:10.0.4esrpre) Gecko/20120407 Firefox/10.0.4esrpre SeaMonkey/2.7.2 ID:20120407131334

I can probably mock up a test email to provide.

Yes, it also happens in safe mode, so it is not an extension getting in the way. I'm not able to get much of anything from the error console when attempting to save, however, I do get this upon *opening* the mimed message:

Error: msgId is null
Source File: chrome://messenger/content/mailWindowOverlay.js
Line: 2922

and above that, several instances of:

Error: ownerDocument.defaultView is null
Source File: jar:file:///J:/OS2WEB/Mozilla/SeaMonkey/Profiles/4h0tldty.default/extensions/%7B7f57cf46-4467-4c2d-adfa-0cba7c507e54%7D.xpi!/components/mafContentPolicy.js
Line: 87

I get nothing further in the error console when attempting to reply, however, in this particular example, a couple interesting things do happen upon clicking Reply:

1. The subject header is not carried over. IOW, the subject of the reply is now simply "Re:" and no further text.
2. The original sender (of the mimed message, not the sender who forwarded it to me) is apparently not recognized as a valid From: header. The reply has no recipient listed. However, replying to all lists the cc'd recipients (but no To:).

The mimed message was originally generated on Microsoft Outlook 14.0. The message was forwarded to me from SeaMonkey 2.6 (on OS/2). It is plain text.

Comment 12

[Lewis Rosenthal]

Possibly related to Bug 199995?