1036984 - "Saved Files" does not show files with certain extensions

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect)

Description

[Jon B]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20140610 Firefox/24.0 PaleMoon/24.6.2 (Nightly/Aurora)
Build ID: 20140610122704

Steps to reproduce:

Save attachments from an email that are in jpg format and rar format
Open the Tools -> Saved Files window


Actual results:

Only the jpg attachments are shown


Expected results:

All saved files should be shown

Comment 1

[Jon B]

Version is 24.6.0.  But tracker lists numbers through Version 33, I don't know what that means

Comment 2

[Trevor Morgan]

I am seeing this problem too.
Attachments with Content-Type: application/octet-stream are not displayed
I suspect that other types & extensions not listed in Options->Attachments->Incoming are not displayed either.
I cannot see how to add other file types.

(Using version 38.1.0)

Comment 3

[Trevor Morgan]

Adding an application/octet-stream handler to mimeTypes.rdf does not help.

Comment 4

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Jon or Trevor, can you pls assist us by attaching to this bug a "real" rar file for testing purposes. It must be real rar-file, not just renamed extension. When you've done that, needinfo me using the checkbox below comment input box.

Comment 5

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

(In reply to Thomas D. from comment #4)
> Jon or Trevor, can you pls assist us by attaching to this bug a "real" rar
> file for testing purposes. It must be real rar-file, not just renamed
> extension. When you've done that, needinfo me using the checkbox below
> comment input box.

Comment 6

[Trevor Morgan]

Attachment: Example File - sent as application/octet-stream

This is an example file of a kind that I often receive.
It is a binary file with a proprietary format that is unlikely to be mistaken for another format.

Comment 7

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Sorry Trevor for coming back to this late...

STR

1) Send msg with attachment like attachment 8644270 [details] with "special" file extension (e.g. "rar", "gen", etc.; not common extension like "jpg"). Probably Ctrl+Shift+Enter to send to your own outbox suffices (untested).
Let's say your file is named "test.gen"

2) Save attachment using [Save] button on attachments header bar (probably any method will do, but untested).

3) Look at Saved Files tab (Ctrl+J)

Actual result

Saved file ("test.gen") not seen on saved files list

Expected result

Saved file ("test.gen") should be listed on saved files list.
(I couldn't think of a reason why not, even if it is an .exe file, we won't stop the user from acting on that even if it's not on the list - or maybe we would? - btw, do we allow double-click to open .exe files?)

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

TCW can you reproduce?

Comment 9

[Arthur K. (he/him)]

Yup. I tested by sending myself four files: a PNG, a JPG, a ZIP, and a RAR. The PNG, JPG, and ZIP shows up in Tools > Saved Files. The RAR is not present in the list.