1597168 - Email drops pasted images

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1510134

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Peter Choma]

Attachment: 20191117_Thunderbird.JPG

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:70.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/70.0

Steps to reproduce:

Thunderbird --> Message-->New_Message
Compose email to myself. Subject: Test
Invoke Firefox http://slashdot.org
Use Windows 7 snipping tool to select section of firefox window
Paste into thunderbird new message window.
Pasted Image is displayed. [See attached file]
Send image to myself

Actual results:

Receive email with no images

WIll attach image of the composed email

Here is what I received:

To: "Choma, Peter-YAH" <[e-mail]>
From: Peter Choma <[e-mail]>
Subject: test
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2019 22:19:16 -0500
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101
Thunderbird/68.2.2
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Language: en-US
References: <[e-mail]>
X-Mailer: WebService/1.1.14728 hermes Apache-HttpAsyncClient/4.1.4 (Java/1.8.0_181)
Content-Length: 46

Firefox image is below:

Firefox image above

Expected results:

Should have received email with pasted images. INstead received email has image stripped out.
Have seen this happen multiple times with pasted images.
Reduced issue to this simple case.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Alfred, do you also see this?

Comment 2

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

This is a know issue. Somehow the e-mail is forced to plaintext due to a configuration mistake. See bug 1510134 comment #18.