148294 - Fails to display attachment sent from Apple Mail

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Attachments, defect)

Description

[bds02]

No crash, just fails to tell me that the message has an attachment.

The sender is Apple Mail (2.481) which was running on MacOS X.

Comment 1

[bds02]

Attachment: This is an email message containing an attachment which mozilla fails to display.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

The MIME structure of the message attached to this bug is not formed exactly as 
I would have expected. It is:
 Msg: multipart/alternative
  P1: text/plain         (plain-text text, textual "Attachment" note, and sig)
  P2: multipart/mixed
    P2.1: text/enriched  (rich-text version of the text)
    P2.2: application/pdf
    P2.3: text/enriched  (rich-text version of the sig)

I would have expected:
 Msg: multipart/mixed
  P1: multipart/alternative
    P1.1: text/plain
    P1.2: text/enriched  (text and sig in one part, thank you very much)
  P2: application/pdf

I suspect that Reporter originally was seeing only the first, text/plain part of 
the message -- which doesn't *contain* an attachment.

At any rate, when I integrate the (600K!) message from this bug into my Mozilla 
mail, I see three attachments: "Part 1.1.1" (text/enriched), the PDF file, and 
"Part 1.1.3" (text/enriched).  Since the multipart/mixed part is text/enriched 
rather than text/html, the "View|Message Body As" setting has no effect on the 
display of this message.

I'm marking this bug WorksForMe, but I've only checked on a Win2K system; if 
this is continuing to not work correctly on Linux (or MacOSX?) please feel free 
to reopen, with details please.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

See bug 234980, about how the 'text/enriched' parts are listed in the attachment 
panel as well as in the message body itself.