120499 - File Save as does not change extension

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 96134

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[u32858]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011226
BuildID:    2001122617

File->Save email does not change extension.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Click File->Save as->File
2.Default is eml, so select txt
3.leave the file name as message.eml

Actual Results:  email will not be saved as txt as selected, it will be saved as
eml format, with the message.eml filename.

txt format is more brief than the eml format

Expected Results:  selecting txt from the menu should change filename to
message.txt (or even better the a name made from the email senders email address)

Also the format that the message is being saved as should be determined by the
menu item selected (default eml) not by the file extension, eg I might want to
save an email as eml, so i select EML from the menu, but i type message.txt so i
can read with out making another extension association, but it saves in the cut
down txt brief fomat. Disregarding the eml format i selected from the File save
menu.

Rather odd bug, but not very user friendly IMO, so i have set it as a normal bug...

Comment 1

[Sheela Ravindran]

2002-01-22-06 confirming on linux and win98

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 96134 ***

Comment 3

[laurel]

marking verified as a duplicate