538373 - Disappearing e-mail messages due to New return receipt handler extension

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[pavel.zahradnik]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; cs; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; cs; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0

After sending message it was not shown in sent mail folder. I tried to reindex sent mail folder but with no success. I explored appropriate mbox file and the message was there, but did not show in TB 3.0!

I think the problem was because in mbox file the message started with
"------=12345--From - Thu Jan 07 12:09:04 2010" instead of "From - Thu Jan 07 12:09:04 2010". After manually deleting the string "------=12345--" in mbox file the message is shown again in TB 3.0

I don't know why there was suddenly the string "------=12345--" in the beginning of the first line of message header but I have found more such messages in my mbox files so I dont't know whether it is safe to manually delete all "------=12345--" strings.

I have a lot of mail so I didn't notice messages disappearing but now I can remeber messages I see in mbox file which are not shown in TB 3.0.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Comment 1

[pavel.zahradnik]

Very probably the problem is related to extension (New return receipt handler) which makes some manipulation with "------=12345--" (e.g. reportContent = reportContent + allHeaders + "\n\n------=12345--")

Comment 2

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Pavel can you contact the add-on author ?

Comment 3

[pavel.zahradnik]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Pavel can you contact the add-on author ?

I have done already. Author released new version on 07/01/2010, from his email: "I think to have found out the cause of that bug and it should be fixed in 0.4.6.1 version, released now."