1016509 - thunderbird drop email into firefox does not work but works in all other browsers

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Justin]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140506152807

Steps to reproduce:

Take an email from Thunderbird and drag and drop it Firefox.  All other browsers (including IE) accept it as a .eml file on drag and drop file uploaders, except Firefox.

This is useful for storing emails as .eml files in the cloud.

This bug only occurs between Thunderbird and Firefox.


Actual results:

Error message:

The address wasn't understood

as when the webpage is expecting a file, the error is usually an empty filename with other errors (depending on website obviously).

What is being passed is not a .eml file, it is an address of the email with the email unique ID for use in Thunderbird.

imap://[e-mail]:993/fetch>UID>/INBOX>33033405


Expected results:

It should do as the other browsers do and convert the dragged email into a .eml file to be dragged into the browser window/object.