Thunderbird maildir manipulation error

Gianluca Sforna giallu at gmail.com
Thu May 12 14:11:49 UTC 2005


On 5/12/05, Mike A. Harris <mharris at www.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> Aha!  I have gotten this bug many times but did not have a reliable
> 100% way of reproducing it, so never filed a bug report!
>
> What happens is you get the error message you've supplied, or you
> get another one "The mail server responded: Invalid mask".  Either
> error message puts thunderbird into an infinite loop, where it
> puts the error dialog up, you click OK *or* cancel, and it puts up
> another dialog with a different message (don't have it handy
> currently, and I'm not anxious to see it again as it is very difficult
> to recover from this bug) - then you click ok or cancel again, and
> the first error comes up again.  It makes no difference how many
> times you click on OK or cancel, thunderbird keeps cycling through
> these two dialog boxes forever, until you kill the program from
> the commandline with "killall thunderbird-bin".

Well, this seems much more critical than mine: in my case, after
closing the dialog I can work normally with the email and no
corruption happens (thanks God...)

> If you file a bug for this, let me know and I'll add whatever details
> I think might be useful to it too.

OK, mine is at:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=157425
I added some additional notes coming from an ethereal capture session,
and it really seems a thunderbird problem.

Cheers




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