157176 - Mail messages can only be satisfactorily saved to disk if not renamed

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 96134

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect)

Description

[Michael Graubart]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020611
BuildID:    2002061103

If an e-mail message is downloaded and then saved to disk by clicking 'Save as…'
and 'File' (or typing Command-S), a dialog appears, offering to save it as
'message.eml'.  If this name is accepted, the resulting file saved to disk can
subsequently be opened and read.  If, however, one opts to give the file a new
name either before or after saving and subsequently tries to open it, a new
dialog appears, asking whether one wants to save the message to disk.  If one
does so, the end result is either circular (in that if one again tries to open
the file one gets back to the dialog) or an HTML version of the message which is
hard to read.

Renaming is essential if one wants to save several messages one after another;
otherwise one has to save each one to a different folder.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. When a message has been received, select it and choose 'Save as…' and 'File'
from the File menu, or type Command-S.
2. In the resulting dialog, type a new name for the file to be saved, and save it.
3. Go offline and try to open the saved message.

Actual Results:  The result is either circular (in that if one again tries to
open the file one gets back to the dialog) or an HTML version of the message
which is hard to read.

Expected Results:  One should end up with a saved file with its new name, and
one should be able to open and read this or print it after going offline.

Classic theme.

Comment 1

[Gregg Meehan]

Unable to reproduce using 20020705 build. I'm able to save using filename
gregg.eml, and can open and read this file even after going offline. Will
regress back to build reporter is using to try and reproduce.

Comment 2

[Gregg Meehan]

Tested on Mac 9.1, using Classic theme.

I downloaded trunk build 2002061103 - Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US;
rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020611, but still cannot reproduce. I'm able to rename a mail
message to anything.eml and save it locally, then after going offline I'm able
to open and read each .eml file, regardless of it's name.

Comment 3

[Michael Graubart]

Additional Comment #2 From Gregg Meehan  2002-07-12 17:05 explains it all:  one
has to retain ".eml" at the end of the file name.  How curious!

Comment 4

[grylchan]

reporter, I'm little confused.
Are you saying that the problem is you can't save a mail
mesg other than as *.eml file? That if you try to save it
as foo.txt or foo.html that it doesn't work?

If so that's bug 96134.

If you are not offline does this problem still occur?

Comment 5

[Michael Graubart]

I haven't tried foo.txt or foo.html.  It would never have occurred to me.  In
other mail systems, one can name an e-mail file Charlie or Susan or Joe Bloggs
or Crocodile's Teeth and still save it to disk.

I can't remember whether I tried saving it while online, but it shouldn't make
any difference, since the message will already have been downloaded. 

Comment 6

[grylchan]

Reporter,
I talked to one of our mac guys, I believe you are running into
bug 96134.

Using trunk 2002071808 build on Mac 9.2.2,
I was able to reproduce your problem.
after saving a mail mesg (online or offline) locally to my computer,
when I try to double click on it to open (it shows mozilla icon),
i get the mesg 'do you want to open this or save it' instead
of mail just opening.

Since in windows, we don't save the right file extension, we aren't also
saving it right so that in Mac, it will open up correctly. That 'recursive'
dialog you see, is because Mac is saying I dont know what type of file
this is.

So if that other bug gets fixed, your bug will to.

marking as dupe of bug 96134.



*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 96134 ***

Comment 7

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

verified dup