Closed Bug 150983 Opened 22 years ago Closed 21 years ago

RTF wrong mime type : attachments sent as text/plain

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Attachments, defect)

x86
Linux
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: david.morel, Assigned: mscott)

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Details

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020610
BuildID:    2002061009

rtf attachments are sent with wrong mime type and displayed as text in message
body. see copy of sample mail below.
Attachment can still be "saved as..." but it shouldn't display in message body
(imho)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
compose mail, attach rtf file, send. Open the received message, and see !

Subject: essai
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
 boundary="------------080708080207070000020804"

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
--------------080708080207070000020804
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit


--------------080708080207070000020804
Content-Type: text/plain;
 name="cv.rtf"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline;
 filename="cv.rtf"

{\rtf1\ansi\deff0\adeflang1025
{\fonttbl{\f0\froman\fprq2\fcharset0 Times New Roman{\*\falt
Thorndale};}{\f1\froman\fprq2\fcharset0 Times New Roman{\*\falt
Thorndale};}{\f2\fswiss\fprq2\fcharset0 Arial;}{\f3\fswiss\fprq2\fcharset0
Arial{\*\falt Albany};}{\f4\froman\fprq2\fcharset2
Symbol;}{\f5\fnil\fprq2\fcharset0 HG Mincho Light J;}{\f6\froman\fprq2\fcharset0
Times New Roman;}{\f7\fnil\fprq2\fcharset0 Arial Unicode MS;}}
{\colortbl;\red0\green0\blue0;\red0\green0\blue255;\red128\green128\blue128;}
{\stylesheet{\s1\cf0{\*\hyphen2\hyphlead2\hyphtrail2\hyphmax0}\rtlch\afs24\lang255\ltrch\dbch\af6\afs22\langfe255\loch\f2\fs22\snext1
Default;}
{\s2\sb240\sa
etc.
etc.
etc.
more junk
etc.
Mozilla version: 0.9.2.1
System: Linux

Same problem also occurs with PDF files, as well as RTF. Mozilla really needs to
mark such files with the correct MIME type instead of just "text/plain".

It is also worth noting that some other mail clients *cannot* open RTF and PDF
files sent by Mozilla for this reason (Netscape 4 on Mac for example).

Steps to reproduce:
Compose message, attach PDF file, send. Open in any mail client.

Start of sample PDF message below:

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

...
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
 boundary="------------050703040807010006010204"

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
--------------050703040807010006010204
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Message body here...

--------------050703040807010006010204
Content-Type: text/plain;
 name="Sample_PDF.pdf"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: inline;
 filename="Sample_PDF.pdf"
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...

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

This bug may be a duplicate of 93991 ("Some binary attachments receive
text/plain mime type")
QA Contact: trix → yulian
QA Contact: yulian → stephend
Reporter: Does this problem still occour with a current Mozilla build (also see
Bug 93991)?
no response-->resolving wfm
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Product: MailNews → Core
Frank Wein asks: "Does this problem still occour with a current Mozilla build (also see Bug 93991)?"

Yes, it still occurs in Thunderbird 1.5. RTF attachments received from Eudora are displayed inline
Ok, but this bug here is about sending RTF as the Summary already says (and not about receiving&displaying).
(In reply to comment #4)
> Frank Wein asks: "Does this problem still occour with a current Mozilla build
> (also see Bug 93991)?"
> 
> Yes, it still occurs in Thunderbird 1.5. RTF attachments received from Eudora
> are displayed inline

I asked Gyula to send me a copy of a message like that, which he did; in that message, the RTF part was given a MIME type of text/plain, so when TB displays that as RTF source, it's doing exactly what's demanded by the spec.

That message generated by:
  X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32)
I doubt Eudora is doing this all the time; I suspect the original sender's system might be configured (somehow, somewhere) to have .RTF associated with text/plain.
Product: Core → MailNews Core
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