96868 - Forwarding large message doesn't work

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Bill Sheppard]

Build 2001080110, Win98SE, IMAP.  Attempting to forward a message (inline) with
attachments >1MB hangs Mozilla.  I suspect this may be related to the bug which
doesn't allow downloading of messages >1MB, but I don't know how to verify this.

Comment 1

[Sheela Ravindran]

reporter,
What is the file type that you are attaching? Which account are you using imap 
or pop?

Comment 2

[Bill Sheppard]

Using IMAP.  Doesn't seem to matter what the attached filetype is, if it's
bigger than 1024K (or so) the composition window hangs, thus hanging all of Mozilla.

Comment 3

[Scott MacGregor]

does the hang happen when you click Send or when we are trying to bring up the
compose window?

Comment 4

[Bill Sheppard]

It hangs after bringing up the compose window.  The compose window comes up,
there is disk activity suggesting that the attachments are being retrieved, and
eventually the disk activity subsides (roughly consistent with the time it takes
to load an email with a 1MB attachment on my system).  At this point I can do
other non-Mozilla windows activity, but Mozilla doesn't respond, and portions of
the Mozilla mail window which get covered don't get repainted upon becoming
topmost again.

Comment 5

[Scott MacGregor]

do you have any low disk space issues?

Comment 6

[Bill Sheppard]

No, >500MB free.  Are you unable to confirm this?  It's vaguely possible that I
simply didn't wait long enough (waited several minutes, I did notice that a 300K
forward took ~30 seconds to return control to the compose window).

Comment 7

[Sheela Ravindran]

Reporter,
Can you attach the attachment to the bug. I can try to see if it can be 
reproduced on my machine. 
I am using approximately 1MB to 5MB attachments and so far not able to see the 
problem. I also tired forwarding a messsage which has image which is large. 
Worksforme. If you are still seeing this problem attach the file in this bug or 
please comment if you not seeing this problem anymore so that this can be 
resolved. thanks.

Comment 8

[Bill Sheppard]

Well, my last few attempts have worked, so unless I can reproduce the problem
let's assume it was operator error.  Please set status to whatever's appropriate...

Comment 9

[Sheela Ravindran]

Hmm!
marking this as worksforme based on reporter's comments. 

Comment 10

[Sheela Ravindran]

verified as worksforme. 2001-09-04-10 win98