1363236 - PDF attachment corrupted from email that only has PDF as body

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1361422

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Boostland]

Attachment: Email error headers.txt

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.96 Safari/537.36



Actual results:

Unable to open a PDF attachment due to a corrupt file since the upgrade to 52.1.0 saving the attachment to the HDD also creates a corrupt file.

PDF file opens fine from Gmail either with their viewer or if you save attachment to HDD and open with Adobe reader.

Seems to be some sort of problem decoding the PDF file, from what I can see so far the emails that have no body text and only the attachment as the body are affected.

When you forward it appears to fix it as it adds a body to the email forwarding to your own email may be a work around for now.
Or to open the PDF simply forward email then before you send you can open the attachment in the top right.
Then close the email without sending.

Problem is repeatable on a freshly installed profile.
Emails without a body from NetWeaver 7.03 are failing to decode PDF from multiple senders.
Other emails with body text appear to work fine.

It was working fine on 45.8.0 and still works on that version when I reinstalled it to test.
Does not work in the 53 beta or the 54 alpha they behave exactly the same as the 52.1.0 version.


Expected results:

Attachment should save or open as in previous versions

Comment 1

[Boostland]

Another user reported same issue here.

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=3030104

Comment 2

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Will be fixed in TB 52.1.1 coming out soon. It also works in Daily TB 55.