156146 - email forward attachments limited to 8

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[John Longwell]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530
BuildID:    2002053012

I was attempting to forward myself a few hundred emails that live in a specific
folder so I could save it as a single file and burn it to a cd.  There is
apparantly a limit of 8 emails that can be attached.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.open mail
2.highlight more than 8 emails
3.click "forward"
4.count number of attachments

Actual Results:  A maximum of 8 emails can be attached to a single message
regardless of the number of requested emails to be attached.

Expected Results:  Mozilla should attach all highlighted emails to be forwarded
regardless of number.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 161340 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 57604 ***

Comment 3

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

The limitation is to prevent to open too many window when replying or forwarding
inline multiple message (one per message). We should not have a limitation for
forwarding as attachment as we open only one compose window. Patch coming...

nominating for buffy

Comment 4

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

this is not a dup of bug 57604. Bug 57604 is for the limitation in other cases
(forward inline, replies).

Comment 5

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

Attachment: Proposed fix, v1

Comment 6

[varada]

Comment on attachment 94239 [details] [diff] [review]
Proposed fix, v1

looks good to me;r=varada

Comment 7

[David :Bienvenu]

Comment on attachment 94239 [details] [diff] [review]
Proposed fix, v1

sr=bienvenu

Comment 8

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

Fix checked in

Comment 9

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

*** Bug 162324 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 167997 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Torben]

*** Bug 157327 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

I was able to select 12 messages at the same time, and clicking forward opened
12 compose windows with the message forwarded inline.

Builds: 

Mac OS X 10.2.3 - 2003-01-09-08
RedHat 8.0 - 2003-01-09-08
Windows 2000 - 2003-01-09-08

Verified FIXED

Comment 13

[David Merrill]

This bug has indeed been fixed (as of v1.3a, at least for Win98). However, for
the record, the previous message misinterpreted the problem: the desired (and
current actual) result was/is that all selected messages would be attached to a
single message.

Comment 14

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

David Merrell - thank you, yes.  Here's the reason, though:

Netscape and Mozilla have different default forward prefs set:

Mozilla is set to forward as attachment and Netscape is set to forward inline.

Therefore, when I tested this on our commercial trunk builds (7.x+), clicking
Forward attempted inline, and realized it can't do that, so it spawned 12 windows.

I've also just verified that when I specifically use 'Forward as Attachment', we
(commercial) do the same behavior as Mozilla.