192725 - sent mail has empty body if paste html into it

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Michael D. Beynon]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

If I paste a blob of highlighted table text from a mozilla window into the email
composition window, it looks fine and has the red outline to suggest it is still
a table.  This can be saved sucessfully using Save As... before I send the
message.  Once the message is sent or saved into the Sent folder, the complete
body is lost, and instead contains the text "This is a multi-part message in
MIME format.".  The recipient email address (mine) is set to accept html messages.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to the weather.com url referenced, and highlight the table from "Today" to
the end of the 10-day forecast
2. Paste this into the body of an open composition window
3. Send the message and examine the Sent folder copy (if so configured) or look
at what the receiver gets for a message

Actual Results:  
The following message is received ...

X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00800000
Message-ID: <3E49120E.1020300@REMOVED>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 10:09:02 -0500
From: "Michael D. Beynon" <beynon@REMOVED>
Organization: REMOVED
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To:  beynon@REMOVED
Subject: test
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.



Expected Results:  
The attached file from "Save As..." before the email is sent shows the correct
message body.

Comment 1

[Michael D. Beynon]

Attachment: message put into Sent folder (with empty body)

Comment 2

[Michael D. Beynon]

Attachment: email file from Save As... before message is sent (correct)

Comment 3

[Michael D. Beynon]

I just tried this in Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b)
Gecko/20030211, and it appears to work fine.  It behaves a little differently in
that the pasted table in the message composer window shows the images, but the
email message received (and saved into the Sent folder) contains no such images
and loses some of the table formatting.  Not sure if I caused the difference by
playing with my settings.  In any case, this bug appears to be fixed.