14120 - Empty body in Plain Text mail omits "Content-Type" header

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: MIME, defect, P3)

Description

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

** observed with 9/16/99 Win32 M11 build **

When we send out a msg with an empty body, we should not omit
the content of Content-Type but this is what we do now.
In contrast, 4.x sends out something like this:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

5.0 sends out:

Content-Type:
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

This latter type of header then leads to our 4.7 showing that there exists
an attachment with:

Type: C
Encoding: 7-bit

I can't tell which is at fault but I think it would be better if
5.0 does send out at least something like: text/plain, or maybe
we should follow 4.x and append the intended charset info.
What do you think? (Is this intentional in 5.0?)

Comment 1

[Phil Peterson]

I don't see a B1-stopper user problem described here, so TFV -> M16

Comment 2

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

A couple of concerns I have about this are:

1) Sending subscription notice to Mailing lists which sometimes
   uses only the subject header. If the lack of Content-type has no
   effect, that would make me feel better about this being M14.
2) People sometime send out a msg with the subject header only, e.g.
   "Out till mid-afternoon (eom)". In such a case, the bug here may lead
   recipients to believe that there is an attachment.

Comment 3

[rhp (gone)]

I see this and have a fix under way...should be done by later today.

- rhp

Comment 4

[rhp (gone)]

This should be fixed with my latest checkin to:

    /cvsroot/mozilla/mailnews/compose/src/nsMsgSend.cpp

- rhp

Comment 5

[pmock]

changing QA assigned to pmock

Comment 6

[pmock]

Verified as fixed using the following build:
ftp://sweetlou/products/client/seamonkey/windows/32bit/x86/1999-11-12-18-M11/bac
kup/install.exe
ftp://sweetlou/products/client/seamonkey/macos/8.x/ppc/1999-11-11-11-M11/netscap
e5-mac-M11.sea.bin
ftp://sweetlou/products/client/seamonkey/unix/linux_glibc/2.2/x86/1999-11-12-18-
M11/netscape-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz

The content-type header information is present.
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit"