From: James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...>
Date: 2004-10-18T01:46:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Code for remote E-mail cleaning?

Randy W. Sims wrote:
> On 10/17/2004 4:08 AM, James Britt wrote:
> 
>> I've discovered that, for all its good points, the Mozilla Thunderbird 
>> E-mail client is braindead when it comes to malformed mail headers.  
>> It seems that if an inbox contains any mail with a bad header, then 
>> Thunderbird simply stops fetching more mail from that inbox.  Period.
>>
>> One then has to manually delete the offending message.
> 
> 
> I ran in to this same problem with the Mozilla suite on some newsgroups. 
> Giganews was able to fix it on their end, but the Mozilla team hasn't 
> responded to the problem. Mozilla should idealy be able to work around 
> the bad headers.
> 
> You can see my report at:
> <http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=261495>


Thanks.  I've seen assorted bug reports for this, but no indication that 
the Mozilla team will be fixing it any time soon.  So, in the meantime, 
I'm looking for a hack.

James
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> Randy.
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