Closed Bug 317460 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

TB returns 'Unable to write the email to the mailbox' when downloaded poorly formed message

Categories

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 166111

People

(Reporter: robhustwit, Assigned: mscott)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7 TB returns 'Unable to write the email to the mailbox. Make sure the file system allows you write privileges, and you have enough disk space to copy the mailbox.' when attempting to download a message with poorly-formed strings from POP3 server. Disk is not full and is not write protected. Other messages in mailbox downloaded fine, but hangs at same message in list every time. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1.Open TB and start download of message 2.Note that first 300 or so of 1000 messages download successfully 3.Observe error message at same point every time Actual Results: Cleared mailbox of 'no subject, no sender, no body' messages via webmail and problem disappeared Expected Results: Downloaded contents of mailbox, junk and all
what version of tb are you using? If 1.0x, you might want to try 1.5 RC1 and see if it's fixed.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 166111 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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