Sorry, forgot the attachment...
Here it is.
-- Tom
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 10:13:03AM +0200, I wrote:
<snip /> 4. Furthermore: If the last message seen from within Thunderbird was not yet read, and the problem occurs (new mail arrives that is not seen), this last message will then seem corrupted from Thunderbird the next message in the mailbox.
- it will contain at the end some garbage filling, and then part of
This is while the mailbox itself is completely valid, has no such garbage in it, and the messages are validly separated by an empty line and a valid "From " line. Perhaps this means there's some race-condition bug in the mbox reading/index syncing code? That's the code I least understand as of now...
Attached is an example of one such last message saved from Thunderbird after new mail arrived that was not seen. The filler characters are bytes of 0x80, and then the next message from "n-Path: " is present.
Any hints?
Cheers, -- Tom
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