767829 - Message list: From column of reply message temporarily shows recipient instead of sender (seen on IMAP, with "Place replies in the folder of the message being replied to")

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, defect)

Description

[Peter Sone Koldkjær]

Attachment: Troubleshooting Information.pdf

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0
Build ID: 20120619191901

Steps to reproduce:

Replied to a mail that I received.


Actual results:

Mail was sent (everything OK), but I discovered that the From value for the composed and sent mail is wrong in the list - is receiver of the mail.


Expected results:

My name should have been in the list.

Comment 1

[Peter Sone Koldkjær]

Attachment: Screenshot 1: Recipient's name wrongly shown in From column

Comment 2

[Peter Sone Koldkjær]

Attachment: Dump of Error Console

Listed is the issues from same timestamp as sent mail

Comment 3

[Peter Sone Koldkjær]

Mails are located in a sub-folder to Inbox.
I tried to shift view to Inbox and back - wrong value was still shown.
After restart of Thunderbird the right value was shown...

Comment 4

[Hashem Masoud]

(In reply to Peter Sone Koldkjær from comment #2)
> Created attachment 636184 [details]
> Dump of Error Console
> 
> Listed is the issues from same timestamp as sent mail

This error is related to interpreting HTML code. See some similar bugs: http://tinyurl.com/7rt55rq

Comment 5

[Peter Sone Koldkjær]

(In reply to Hashem Masoud from comment #4)
> (In reply to Peter Sone Koldkjær from comment #2)
> > Created attachment 636184 [details]
> > Dump of Error Console
> > 
> > Listed is the issues from same timestamp as sent mail
> 
> This error is related to interpreting HTML code. See some similar bugs:
> http://tinyurl.com/7rt55rq

OK - just wanted to be as informative as possible... ;)

Comment 6

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Does repairing the folder fixes the issue ?

Comment 7

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Peter Sone Koldjaer, thanks for filing this bug, especially annotated screenshot of attachment 636183 [details] showing the issue.

Peter, are you able to reproduce this bug, e.g. by replying to the same message again?

(In reply to Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul] from comment #6)
> Does repairing the folder fixes the issue ?

Well, reporter says in comment 3 that after restart of TB, values in from-column were correct, so reparing folder isn't needed...

(In reply to Hashem Masoud from comment #4)
> (In reply to Peter Sone Koldkjær from comment #2)
> > Created attachment 636184 [details]
> > Dump of Error Console
> > Listed is the issues from same timestamp as sent mail
> 
> This error is related to interpreting HTML code. See some similar bugs:
> http://tinyurl.com/7rt55rq

I think Hashem is trying to say that *Errors seen in error console* are related to HTML code (hence unrelated to this bug), which is true.

*This bug 767829* is not related to HTML code.

(Hashem, "this error" is gramatically ambiguous in your comment 5, as the reference of "this" is unclear)

Comment 8

[Peter Sone Koldkjær]

Attachment: Screenshot 2: From column correctly shows sender after 2nd reply

I tried to reproduce with the following steps:
1: Send mail fra my wifes account to me.
2: I reply to this mail - From column shows her name!
3: I try to reply to her mail again - then both my replies have correct From name (seen on attachment).

Comment 9

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

WADA, as seen in screenshots of attachment 636183 [details] and attachment 641111 [details], this isn't about wrong sender when composing, only a temporary display problem of "From" column in message list.

Comment 10

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

(In reply to Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul] from comment #6)
> Does repairing the folder fixes the issue ?

Peter, can you try this and see if you can still reproduce afterwards?

Right-click on affected folder in folder list > Properties > Repair folder

More questions:
1) Which method/settings are you using to file your reply in the same folder as the original message?
2) what type of folder is it (Inbox, Inbox subfolder etc.)?
3) using POP or IMAP?

Comment 11

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Peter, can you reproduce in Safe Mode (with all addons disabled)?
https://support.mozillamessaging.com/kb/safe-mode

Comment 12

[Peter Sone Koldkjær]

> Peter, can you try this and see if you can still reproduce afterwards?
I can still reproduce in build 20120711200400.

> Right-click on affected folder in folder list > Properties > Repair folder
Does not help - value in From column still wrong.

> More questions:
> 1) Which method/settings are you using to file your reply in the same folder
> as the original message?
I have enables "Place replies on same folder..."

> 2) what type of folder is it (Inbox, Inbox subfolder etc.)?
I can reproduce in Inbox, but also in Inbox subfolder.

> 3) using POP or IMAP?
IMAP

Comment 13

[Peter Sone Koldkjær]

(In reply to Thomas D. from comment #11)
> Peter, can you reproduce in Safe Mode (with all addons disabled)?
> https://support.mozillamessaging.com/kb/safe-mode
Yes

Comment 14

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

I'm unable to reproduce this for *POP* subfolder of Inbox, but it's reported against IMAP.

Comment 15

[Peter Sone Koldkjær]

Attachment: New observation

Today I had to send 2 invitations - so after I sent the first one, I changed folder to Sent Items to be ready to click Forward on the first mail.
Then I saw this new thing: The Recipient on the first mail, is the same as an email I sent yesterday...

Comment 16

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Odd problem you've got.

 Peter, Do you still see it when using much newer version 38 or current beta http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/channel/ ? (which is almost at the next major release, version 45)

Comment 17

[Peter Sone Koldkjær]

Attachment: Issue-767829-solved.png

Cannot reproduce problem in version 44.0

Comment 18

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Excellent. Thanks for the update