Closed
Bug 69510
Opened 24 years ago
Closed 24 years ago
mail is sent with bad X-UIDL field
Categories
(MailNews Core :: Networking: SMTP, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
VERIFIED
FIXED
People
(Reporter: colin, Assigned: mscott)
Details
Using M0.8 on OpenVMS. I send mail with an attachment from Mozilla to a
different user. That other user, when they try to download all of the message
using Navigator 4.7 (they need to click on "download rest of message" because
its above their normal size limit as set in their Nav prefs) they receive the
following message:
unable to connect to server
and in the status bar they can see:
Connect: Contacting host: ~4*#!@jW"!-@Z"!mE8!!
Here's the headers from the message:
Message-ID: <3A929712.6050205@theblakes.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 11:10:58 -0500
From: "Colin's Alpha" <test@theblakes.com>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; OpenVMS 0 COMPAQ_AlphaStation_DS20E_666_M; en-U
S; 0.8) Gecko/20010214
X-Accept-Language: en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: colin@theblakes.com
Subject: Force stack size to min 128K
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="------------010405000900050201080704"
X-UIDL: ~4*#!@jW"!-@Z"!mE8!!
Status: U
Notice that the X-UIDL string matches the funky server name that Nav 4.7 was
trying to connect to.
This only happens if I'm SENDING a message with an attachment. If I instead
REPLY with the attachment, all is well (I presume because the X-UIDL field gets
something sensible written into it).
Reporter | ||
Comment 1•24 years ago
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I've been doing some more playing around. I don't think this is anything to do
with OpenVMS or Mozilla. Many different mail clients send a "jibberish" X-UIDL
header. When seems to upset Navigator 4.7 is when (a) the message larger than
the user's configured "don't automatically download messages larger than this"
size, AND, (b) the X-UIDL string contains an ampersand ("@") character.
I'm off to search the Navigator knowledge base if I can find it....
Reporter | ||
Comment 2•24 years ago
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I just read RFC1725. The UIDL field is part of the POP3 protocol and is defined
by the POP3 server. Therefore this is absolutely and positively nothing to do
with Mozilla. It must be a Navigator 4.7 bug.
Closing. Sorry for the noise.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
verified, but this bug really should have been closed with the "invalid" selection.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Updated•20 years ago
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Product: MailNews → Core
Updated•16 years ago
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Product: Core → MailNews Core
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