126538 - incorrect format of attached vCard

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect, P3)

Description

[Calvin Liu]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204


attach a vCard file to a message and send it with mozilla, the mail client treat
it as a plain text file.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. send a message with mozilla, attached with a vCard file
2. open the message and check the content
3.

Actual Results:  vCard content is shown as plain text


Expected Results:  vCard is shown as it should be

Comment 1

[Calvin Liu]

Attachment: incorrect format with text/plain mime type

I think the reason is the composer send vCard as text/plain format.

Comment 2

[Calvin Liu]

Attachment: modified file

change it to text/x-vcard then it's ok

Comment 3

[Anders Larsson]

Should it not also comply to the note in the bug id #79709
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79709

------- Additional Comment #4 From Karl Ove Hufthammer 2002-01-13 07:24 -------

Note that the correct MIME type is 'text/directory', not 'text/x-vCard'. See
RFC 2425.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Also when composing a new e-mail is should show it as a vcard and not plain text?

-------example bleow how it looks in a new compose e-mail.
-- 
begin:vcard n:john;doe
tel;cell:[phone]
tel;fax:+46
tel;work:+46
x-mozilla-html:FALSE
url:http://www.sunet.se
org:Some company;Dev
version:2.1
email;internet:[e-mail]
title:System Administrator
adr;quoted-printable:;;Some company,=0D=0Aplacement;city;;SE-zip code;Sweden
fn:John Doe
end:vcard 

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Calvin, are you just attaching the vcard file as a normal attachment?  Is the 
request that ".vcf" files be detected as vcard files?  Or that files with 
particular content (what content?) be detected as vcard files?

Comment 5

[Calvin Liu]

I just attached the .vcf file like a normal attachment file. Is it a wrong way?

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

You tell me; I have never used or seen a .vcf file.  ;)  But I _do_ know 
something about the MIME stuff in mozilla, so....

Comment 7

[Calvin Liu]

Boris Zbarsky, you're right.
The problem is caused by mis-configured .mime.types file. There should be a 
line in .mime.types file like this:
type=text/x-vcard              exts=vcf
Then it'll work.
I'll close this bug.

Comment 8

[Trix Supremo]

verified