[Discuss] Thunderbird problem

[Gordon M. Craig]

On Wed, 2007-01-08 at 14:17 -0700, Murray Strome wrote:
> A Gilmore wrote:
> > Murray Strome wrote:
> >> R. Langkamer wrote:
> >>> On 7/31/07 2:43 PM, Murray Strome wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> This is something new I have never seen before.  My Inbox seems to 
> >>>> have become corrupted for new E-mail.
> >>>> The list of messages looks OK, but if I select any message, the 
> >>>> body comes up with some VERY old message that was near the bottom 
> >>>> of my Inbox (i.e. the oldest ones still there) or blank.  I moved 
> >>>> all the recent messages to a new folder, and also tried forwarding 
> >>>> them to my gmail account.  They were still corrupted.  However, 
> >>>> after moving all the corrupted messages out of my Inbox, I sent 
> >>>> myself a test message which seemed to work O.K.   Does anyone have 
> >>>> any idea as to what might have happened?  Any suggestions as to how 
> >>>> to find the actual content of those new messages whose headers 
> >>>> don't match the contents?  I don't think they were critical, but I 
> >>>> would like to know what happened, if possible.
> >>>>
> >>>> I am using Thunderbird version 1.5.0.12 (20070604) with Kubuntu 7.04
> >>>>
> >>>> O.K., I know some of you prefer some other E-mail application, but 
> >>>> I have used this one for years with no problems until today, so I 
> >>>> am not too keen on trying something else.
> >>>>
> >>>> Murray
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>     Two options to try.
> >>>
> >>>     1) right click on the mailbox/folder and choose compact folder
> >>>
> >> OK, this didn't change the situation at all.
> >>>     2) quit TB, delete the index file and relaunch TB
> >>>
> >>>     The index file has the same name as the mailbox/folder but it is 
> >>> much, much, much smaller.
> >>>
> >> I couldn't find the index file.  In the folder 
> >> ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/<my info>.default there is a folder called 
> >> Mail, but there is no separate file called Mail...
> >>
> >> Since moving the corrupted messages from my Inbox, Thunderbird seems 
> >> to be working OK.
> >>>     Finally, upgrade to TB 2 if your distro will let you.
> >>>
> >> I have now upgraded to Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (20070716) following the 
> >> instructions given at:
> >> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ThunderbirdNewVersion
> >>
> >> It seems to be working OK -- but I still have no idea why it went 
> >> crazy for a while, or if the messages i "lost" still exist somewhere.
> >>
> >> Thanks for the suggestions.
> >>
> >> Murray
> >> _______________________________________________
> >
> >
> > I've had possibly the same thing happen.  A mass email was sent out to 
> > an organization I do support for, contained all sorts of HTML and 
> > whatnot, corrupted every Thunderbird (2.x) client that received it. 
> > That email and all email received after it was corrupted, deleting the 
> > problem email and all email after it corrected it.  Same problem as 
> > you had, when opened it would contain nothing, or possibly partial 
> > text of old emails.
> >
> > Didn't have time to investigate it, and the person that sent it was 
> > uncooperative, so I couldn't submit the bug like I wanted to.  This 
> > probably isn't much help to you, but just to add my 2 cents that I'm 
> > positive that you can form an email that when received will corrupt 
> > the latest version of Thunderbird.
> >
> > - Adrien
> Thanks, that sounds like what probably happened.  The only thing that I 
> could see that was unusual is that I sent a series of pretty large 
> photographs to someone at telus.net -- which resulted in filling her 
> inbox and putting her over quota. Telus sent back the about half of the 
> E-mails, with the photos attached. It was right after receiving a few of 
> these that things went bad. I should have paid a bit more attention to 
> which was the first faulty E-mail and deleted it right away -- I will do 
> that if it ever happens again.
> 
>    -- Murray
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Interesting about Thunderbird. I too have a problem, a rather strange
one at that. I have one password for almost everything from root to bank
account; no problems, except that Thunderbird, for some reason, doesn't
send the same password (or something!) Evolution has no problems with
that, thankfully, but putting the same password into Thunderbird ends up
getting Shaw to reject the password. What is wrong here??

Gord Craig, just getting into Ubuntu (on balance, liking it far better
than the Vista that this machine came with.