1373933 - multipart displays incorrectly when filter > reply with template set

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 647210

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[chris.serella]

Attachment: sent-email.txt

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/58.0.3029.110 Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Create email template (html format)
Create new filter:

manually run: off
getting new mail: after junk

match: subject isnt match 1
match: subject isnt match 2

perform: reply with template
perform: mark as unread

I have also tried setting the send format to html which does not get honoured when the template is sent by filter but does when sent manually by editing as new message.

The email when sent manually displays correctly.

System Info
Client
Ubuntu 16.04
TB 52.1.1 64bit

Server
ubuntu 16.04 server
postfix mail server


Actual results:

The email sends normally but displays multipart information, the inline attachment (png image) does not show.


Expected results:

Display either html or plain text and honour the global options for send format.

Comment 1

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Yes, that's a known deficiency last discussed in bug 1370076 and bug 1371998.

Yon can get the auto-reply to contain an image if you use a data: URL, see bug 1370076 comment #14 and before.

Other than that, this is a duplicate of bug 647210.

Comment 2

[chris.serella]

(In reply to Jorg K (GMT+2) from comment #1) 
> Other than that, this is a duplicate of bug 647210.

Apologies if its a known bug, i did search the title and nothing came up relating to it so i posted the bug.

But actually the image not showing was the least of my concerns, the filling of the email body with multipart information is what concerns me the most, its not like its one or the other, but a combination of the two and that is certainly not the intention.

Comment 3

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

You're right, the issue is not quite the same, but the root cause is the same. For auto-reply, you can only use a simple message with in one part, if the part is HTML, you need to play tricks to include images as data: URLs without the message being multipart/related.

Comment 4

[chris.serella]

(In reply to Jorg K (GMT+2) from comment #3)
>you can only use a simple message with in one part

I think that's the way i will go, just keep it a straight forward plain text. Its less than ideal but its a work around until the bugs get squashed.

Thank you for your replies. Much appreciated.

Comment 5

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

(In reply to chris.serella from comment #4)
> I think that's the way i will go, just keep it a straight forward plain
> text.
You can do full-blown HTML with images (company logo, etc.), just takes longer to set up.