Thunderbird 15.0 crash with local Movemail account

[fimbles]

After upgrading to Thunderbird package 15.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 on Ubuntu 12.04.01 LTS 64bits, it keeps crashing at startup.
I use it with a local Movemail account. The problem is the same reported here :
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=787605

Thunderbird started fine with an empty .thunderbird folder. After configured a local Movemail account, it crashed and kept crashing at startup.

It worked fine with Thunderbird 14.0

Running thunderbird -g gives :
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007ffff39f66f8 in nsMovemailService::GetNewMail (this=0x7fffd8fb7ae0,
    aMsgWindow=<optimized out>, aUrlListener=<optimized out>,
    aMsgFolder=<optimized out>, movemailServer=<optimized out>,
    aURL=<optimized out>)
    at /build/buildd/thunderbird-15.0+build1/./mailnews/local/src/nsMovemailService.cpp:465
465 /build/buildd/thunderbird-15.0+build1/./mailnews/local/src/nsMovemailService.cpp: No such file or directory.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Drew MacInnis (drewmacinnis)]

In my case, it turns out the problem is related to bad mail headers in my mail spool file. I built thunderbird locally on my machine so I could better debug the crash:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007ffff39f5034 in nsMovemailService::GetNewMail (this=0x7fffd9f4ed40, aMsgWindow=<optimized out>,
    aUrlListener=<optimized out>, aMsgFolder=<optimized out>, movemailServer=<optimized out>, aURL=<optimized out>)
    at /home/drewm/projects/thunderbird/thunderbird-15.0.1+build1/./mailnews/local/src/nsMovemailService.cpp:465
465 outputStream->Write(buffer.get(), buffer.Length(), &bytesWritten);
(gdb) print buffer
$1 = {<nsFixedCString> = {<nsCString> = {<nsACString_internal> = {
        mData = 0x7fffffffafb8 "rom drewm Fri Oct 12 08:55:12 2012\n", mLength = 36,
        mFlags = 65553}, <No data fields>}, mFixedCapacity = 63,
    mFixedBuf = 0x7fffffffafb8 "rom drewm Fri Oct 12 08:55:12 2012\n"},
  mStorage = "rom drewm Fri Oct 12 08:55:12 2012\n\000\177\000\000@\r\245\323\377\177\000\000\224I\244\026\000\000\000\000\224I\244\026\000\000\000"}
(gdb) print outputStream
$2 = {<nsCOMPtr_base> = {mRawPtr = 0x0}, <No data fields>}
(gdb)

The mStorage line begins with "rom" instead of "from" and it appears that outputStream is null in this case.

If I repair my mail spool and correct this header then Thunderbird starts without crashing.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Further to comment #3, as Ubuntu and Thunderbird versions both long time EOL, and no comments for over 6 years I'm marking this as "Invalid" to close.