Re: Debian 5.0.3 Icedove attachments delete/ detach flaky
David Christensen wrote at 2009-10-09 00:52 -0500:
I have been using Debian 5.0.3 as my primary desktop machine for ~2
weeks. I've noticed that detaching and/or deleting attachments from
messages in Icedove sometimes works, sometimes fails, and sometimes
fails spectacularly (locks up while it creates duplicate messages with
all or some of the attachments!).
green wrote:
Is that icedove 2.0.0.22-0lenny1? Probably not often is a file attached and
then detached from a draft message. You can use the reportbug package to
report the bug.
Thank you for your reply. :-)
I'm not very familiar with Apt. Here is my attempt to find the version
number:
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2009-10-09 11:53:30 dpchrist@p43400e ~
$ dpkg-query -l icedove
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii icedove 2.0.0.22-0lenn free/unbranded thunderbird
mail/news/rss clo
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If there is a better command, tell me and I'll post the results.
I am experiencing the problem with received messages that have
attachments. Testing just now with a draft message, attaching and
deleting an attachment seems to work. But, I am using the Compose
window; the issue occurs when I use the Icedove main window or the
reading window.
Here is the procedure for demonstrating the issue:
1. Start Icedove.
2. Get mail.
3. Select a folder containing a message with attachments in the left pane.
4. Select a message with attachments in the upper-right pane. Top of
message and attachments appear in lower-right pane. (I picked a message
with nine *.jpg attachments.)
5. Choose File -> Attachments -> Delete All. Click button "OK" in
Confirm dialog.
6. Progress bar at bottom of Icedove appears, completes quickly, and
disappears, cursor changes to busy cursor momentarily and changes back
to arrow, and Icedove refreshes, but the attachments are still present.
7. Repeat steps #4 through #6 -- results are the same.
8. Pick a different message with attachments. (I picked a message with
one *.jpg and one Deleted:*jpg attachment.) Right-click on an
attachment in the bottom portion of lower-right pane. Choose "Delete".
Click button "OK" in Confirm dialog. Progress bar flashes by and
Icedove refreshes, but attachment is still there. Repeat -- same results.
9. Double-click on message with attachments in upper-right pane.
Choose File -> Attachments -> Delete All, and Confirm. Window updates
and attachments are still present. Repeat -- same results.
10. Right-click on an attachment in the reading pane and choose Delete.
Window updates and attachment is still present. Repeat -- same results.
I have started collecting messages with attachments I can't delete.
Thus far, I have four messages and they are all from the same person. I
am wondering if his mailer is encoding attachments in a way the Icedove
can't handle? All four contain these headers (boundary varies, as
expected):
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X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/7.0.14 YahooMailWebService/0.7.347.3
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="0-1180664548-1253938940=:48297"
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Does Icedove have an error log file somewhere that I can look at?
Is anyone else seeing this behavior?
David
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