108042 - send fails with UNC path-ed attachment

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 55591

(MailNews Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[B.J. Kramer]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)
BuildID:    2001101117

Sending a message with an attachment that is referenced by a UNC path, rather 
than a driver letter, causes the send to fail. It seems to attach it alright, 
but when I click send I get a misleading error message.

If I reference the very same file using a mapped drive letter, it works fine.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. create new mail message
2. click in the attachment window to add new attachment
3 [details] [diff] [review]. manually type in UNC path to a file, hit Open (alternatively, browse thru 
Network Neighborhood, or simply drag file from an explorer window open to a UNC 
path)
4. Click Send.

Actual Results:  I get the following error box:
Title: Send Message Error
  Sending of message failed.
  Please verify that your Mail & Newsgroups account settings are correct and 
try again.
    [OK]


Expected Results:  The message should simply get sent (duh)

Forcing users to map a drive is not always an appropriate workaround, as there 
may be policy restrictions that prevent users from doing so.
I don't think I'm the only sysadmin out there who doesn't want the users using 
IE/OE or NS6x. Mozilla has the potential to be a very popular choice for 
sysadmins, so I think special attention needs to be paid to problems that 
effect NT/2k network implementation. </rant>

Comment 1

[Alfonso Martinez]

dup of 55591 "Unable to send mail msg with attachment specified via UNC name".
which was fixed after the cut for 0.9.5

Reporter, please reopen if you can still reproduce with a current nightly.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 55591 ***

Comment 2

[Karen Huang]

Verified as dup.

Comment 3

[esther]

note:this is a dup of a bug that was fixed and verified on builds after
10/15/2001, this bug was logged for build 10/11/2001.