Bug 136124

Summary:	Malformed URLs block Thunderbird
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Siva Mahalingam <siva>
Component:	Firefox	Assignee:	E-mail List <bnc-team-mozilla>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	security-team
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.0
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	text information on bug

Description Siva Mahalingam 2005-11-30 16:36:51 UTC

Emails (spam) with a malformed URL blocks POP3 email download with Thunderbird. A number of emails will download until the bolcked email is encountered. Thunderbird then blocks and no further emails can download until the blocking email is cleared on the POP3 server.

This is apparently a known Thunderbird bug, and there is apparently a fix due in in early December.

This is a serious bug, so an update to Thunderbird should be made available as soon as possible.

Comment 1 Marcus Meissner 2005-11-30 16:40:30 UTC

wolfgang? are you aware of it?

this cannot block 10.0

Comment 2 Wolfgang Rosenauer 2005-11-30 18:08:43 UTC

If there is apparently a fix. Would you please point us to that (e.g. by bugzilla id)?

Comment 3 Siva Mahalingam 2005-12-01 12:37:00 UTC

Created attachment 59437 [details]
text information on bug

There are several bug reports on this. This is one.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=260629

I was told on the Thunderbird help forum that there would be a fix on the next version of Thunderbird (version 1.5), but I can't find the fix. The best thing would be to contact the person dealing with the bug at mozilla - mscott@mozilla.org

Comment 4 Wolfgang Rosenauer 2005-12-22 09:41:47 UTC

I can't find any fix and it seems that the reason for this can be found on the server side. I found no proof that it's a client problem nor a fix for it.
If you have more references (as the forum link) please post them here.

Comment 5 Marcus Meissner 2006-03-29 14:31:18 UTC

no feedback.