Closed Bug 549931 Opened 15 years ago Closed 15 years ago

Irregular message does not update header pane on message view (aka 'undisclosed-recipients' not showing)

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(blocking-thunderbird3.1 rc1+, thunderbird3.1 rc1-fixed)

RESOLVED FIXED
Thunderbird 3.3a1
Tracking Status
blocking-thunderbird3.1 --- rc1+
thunderbird3.1 --- rc1-fixed

People

(Reporter: bleber, Assigned: standard8)

References

(Depends on 1 open bug)

Details

(Keywords: regression, testcase)

Attachments

(3 files, 2 obsolete files)

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.249.89 Safari/532.5 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.2pre) Gecko/20100303 Lanikai/3.1b2pre The attached message does not update the header pane--Thunderbird continues to show the header of the previously viewed message--when clicking the message to view. If you open the folder (Inbox, in my case) with the message preselected, you get NO header pane. This message is not a problem with TB 3.0, but it is a problem with 3.1b2pre. Clearing .MSF file, re-indexing, and compacting have no effect. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: (a little tricky because the message won't show the problem if it's forwarded, only if it's received in its current form) 1. In 3-pane view, click message from message list. Actual Results: Header pane does not update or appear. Expected Results: Header pane should update.
Attached file The problematic message. (deleted) —
Attachment #430072 - Attachment mime type: text/plain → message/rfc822
Have you tried safe mode? (see https://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode for more information)
Anything in Tools -> Error console ?
Keywords: testcase
Good idea. Here is the Error Console message when clicking the problematic mail message: Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x8007000e (NS_ERROR_OUT_OF_MEMORY) [nsIMsgHeaderParser.extractHeaderAddressMailboxes]" nsresult: "0x8007000e (NS_ERROR_OUT_OF_MEMORY)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://messenger/content/msgHdrViewOverlay.js :: anonymous :: line 529" data: no] Will try Safe Mode next.
Same error in Safe Mode. For reference, I'm running Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.2pre) Gecko/20100316 Lanikai/3.1b2pre (In reply to comment #4) > Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: > 0x8007000e (NS_ERROR_OUT_OF_MEMORY) > [nsIMsgHeaderParser.extractHeaderAddressMailboxesextractHeaderAddressMailboxes]" nsresult: "0x8007000e > (NS_ERROR_OUT_OF_MEMORY)" location: "JS frame :: > chrome://messenger/content/msgHdrViewOverlay.js :: anonymous :: line 529" > data: no]
Confirming the regression on Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.2pre) Gecko/20100221 Lightning/1.0b2pre Lanikai/3.1b1pre. I get the same exception. As the email looks quite simple, I think this needs investigation.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
blocking-thunderbird3.1: --- → ?
Ever confirmed: true
Keywords: regression
I don't think this really qualifies for the either of the 3.1 blocking criteria: a) make the upgrade experience from TB2 very painful for a large number of users or b) be a new, reproducible, severe quality issue (eg dataloss, frequent crashes) If we get more information that makes us believe a very significant number of users is experiencing this, please renominate.
blocking-thunderbird3.1: ? → -
Standard8 pointed out to me that we'd hit this for any mail with an empty group-syntax, which would be hit in significant numbers. If someone was interested in doing a binary search on the nightly builds to figure out when this regression crept in, that would be helpful!
blocking-thunderbird3.1: - → rc1+
Assignee: nobody → bugzilla
The regression bug is bug 242693, I pretty much know the details of how to fix it and test it, so taking bug.
Blocks: 242693
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: --- → Thunderbird 3.1b2
perhaps the patch you are contemplating will also fix this - xref v3.0 regression Bug 548914 - malformed To: prevents proper message header display
In Bug 559620 I reported a case where this bug was used as part of a phishing attack. - Mitra
Attached file The first of my failing test cases (obsolete) (deleted) —
Attached file The second of my failing test cases. (obsolete) (deleted) —
Attachment #439582 - Attachment is obsolete: true
Comment on attachment 439581 [details] The first of my failing test cases (Uh, I'll just attach the To: lines instead…) To: <"Undisclosed-Recipient:;"@latte.ca> To: undisclosed-recipients: ; To: <undisclosed-recipients:> To: "Me at [:] Home" <bwinton+moretests@latte.ca> And something seems off with the To line of: To: A Group:Chris Jones <c@a.test>,joe@where.test,John <jdoe@one.test>; but I think that might be a bug in dmose's code. Thanks, Blake.
Attachment #439581 - Attachment is obsolete: true
I'm starting to think this should block b2 instead of rc1 - is the fix hard?
bienvenu: why?
We've had at least three dupes in the last two days.
Here's the possibilities: - Back out bug 242693, don't have it in 3.1 - Fix this bug! - Band-aid for beta 2 and then fix or backout. At the moment, I'd probably be realistically looking at a day for a full fix to this bug - I've looked at it before and I know something bad is going on, I just can't see what changed to cause it. Backing out bug 242693 is a possibility, but I'd have liked to look a bit more in-depth at this one. The band-aid would be to put try/catches around the extractHeaderAddressMailboxes calls in msgHdrViewOverlay.js that prevent the error, and would mean that we don't display *anything* for that header line. As I say, this is a band-aid and would be just for beta 2. I'm open to thoughts on this.
Importance I think is that its being actively exploited for some effective Phishing & Spamming -= which I'm guessing is why we are getting the dupes.
Band-aid for b2 sounds ok to me, assuming you have time.
Note to self: Before bug 242693 the behaviour of passing 'Undisclosed recipients:;' was as follows: - nsIMsgHeaderParser.extractHeaderAddressMailboxes returns '\"Undisclosed recipients:;\"' - nsIMsgHeaderParser.extractHeaderAddressNames returns '\"Undisclosed recipients:;\"' - nsIMsgHeaderParser.extractHeaderAddressName returns 'Undisclosed recipients:;' The latter two seem wrong. From the descriptions, I'd expect just 'Undisclosed recipients'. extractHeaderAddressMailboxes also seems wrong - I think it should just be returning '' - the empty string because there are no mailboxes.
Depends on: 562786
For 3.1 beta 2, we've decided to work around this by putting in a try/catch that will keep things going. The side effect will be that the address will just be displayed as an empty string, but at least we'll be displaying a semi-relevant header. Hence, we'll still need to fix this before rc1, but for beta 2 the error is not quite so harsh.
Whiteboard: [eta Thursday]
Whiteboard: [eta Thursday] → [eta Thursday 13th]
Summary: Irregular message does not update header pane on message view → Irregular message does not update header pane on message view (aka 'undisclosed-recipients' not showing)
Attached patch Proposed fix (deleted) — Splinter Review
This fix seems to do the right job for 3.1 at least. Our handling of group syntax in nsMsgHeaderParser isn't very good. What I'm doing in this patch is to try and match us reasonably closely to 3.0 behaviour without regressing bug 242693, and end up displaying the right things. When I commit this, I'm also proposing that we back out the work around that we had for beta 2, i.e. backing out bug 562786 from comm-1.9.2. A summary of the patch follows: - Took out the code that skipped empty groups. Although we should probably be skipping empty groups (at least for extractHeaderAddressMailboxes functionality), we'll actually end up not displaying anything if we do. We should probably be displaying the group name, but I think that's more complex and going to change APIs and things, and hence a subject for a different bug. - Determine if we're in a group or not and use this to determine if ";" is an address separator or not. This gives rise to some funny syntax, but if you look at the 3.0 testcases (attachment 445956 [details] [diff] [review]) you'll find that 3.0 gave basically the same results. - Adjusts the testcases that we've got in the tree, and add one in test_nsIMsgHeaderParser2.js that checks for the cause of this bug - "Undisclosed recipients:;". I think this is the best we can do for 3.1, if we go for it, then I'll file at least one follow-up to look at improving our syntax handling.
Attachment #445958 - Flags: superreview?(dmose)
Attachment #445958 - Flags: review?(dmose)
Whiteboard: [eta Thursday 13th] → [needs review dmose]
Target Milestone: Thunderbird 3.1b2 → ---
Comment on attachment 445958 [details] [diff] [review] Proposed fix r+sr=dmose. It'll be nice to do better in the future. :-)
Attachment #445958 - Flags: superreview?(dmose)
Attachment #445958 - Flags: superreview+
Attachment #445958 - Flags: review?(dmose)
Attachment #445958 - Flags: review+
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Flags: in-testsuite+
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Whiteboard: [needs review dmose]
Target Milestone: --- → Thunderbird 3.2a1
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