Closed Bug 448508 Opened 16 years ago Closed 14 years ago

detach/delete attachment doesn´t do anything on HTML mail with inline pictures

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect)

x86
Windows 2000
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

People

(Reporter: mail.kfr, Unassigned)

Details

(Whiteboard: closeme 2010-08-25)

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080702 Firefox/2.0.0.16
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.16 (20080708)

When a HTML mail is viewed as plain text, the inline pictures appear as attachments. If you try to detach/delete them, you are asked if you really want to remove them, but the message that is then uploaded to imap is just the same message, same size (3MB), with all pictures.

BTW: It´d be nice if you could just detach the pictures as viewed in the "simple HTML" - view.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Compose HTML message with picture. (Not attached, inline picture)
2.Send it to yourself

Actual Results:  
Picures cannot be detached. It seems to work, but the email is the same afterwards, same size, everything in it.

Expected Results:  
Expected the email text without the pictures. I don´t want to loose what my fried wrote, I just want to get rid of those 5-Megabyte-Pictures.

I think this was reported before as Bug 417646, only nobody noted that this multipart-MIME HTML stuff was responsible, they thought it was an apple issue.
Version: unspecified → 2.0
If you View>>message source, you will see that the content-type is listed as inline and not attachment. The plaintext view just portrays them as attachments. If you could delete them, this would be the equivalent of erasing portions of a written mail, and calling it the original.
This bug should be marked INVALID
(In reply to comment #1)
> This bug should be marked INVALID

Except that I see this when there are *both* inline *and* attached files (a zip archive, for example). Neither deleting just the zip nor deleting all works. In addition, there is NO feedback to the user that some or all files could not be deleted or why.

I see this in SeaMonkey on OS/2 & Linux, so this should be marked for all OSes (unless someone *doesn't* see this on something) and for MailNews, not just Tbird.

It's very frustrating...
Since TB development is being done entirely 3.x branch now, I doubt if anything will change in TB2
Thunderbird 3.0b1 will be released very shortly, I would suggest you give it a try. Look at http://www.mozillamessaging.com for release info.
As not many of us are running SuiteRunner builds of SeaMonkey, I doubt that TB 3.0b1 is going to shed much light on this, nor do I see migrating my corporate clients to beta software anytime. The current nightly of TB appears to be 3.0a2; I'm not sure when b1 will be coming down the pike, nor how that development will impact SeaMonkey in the near future.

Thanks for the insight, though, Joe.
Joe, I disagree with your analogy.  When attachments are deleted, there are usually still icons shown in the attachment area with the caption "Deleted:name of image" - so there would be a record that portions of the original had been removed.
How is this behaving on v3?
Component: Mail Window Front End → Message Reader UI
QA Contact: front-end → message-reader
Whiteboard: closeme 2010-08-25
closing incomplete for lack of information. if you feel this change was made in error, please update the bug.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
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