164791 - drag&drop image from web page to message compose should attach image instead of referencing original url

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Ishq Ali]

In NS4.x, you could drag and drop an image into the composer and it will become
a part of the mail. When you do the same in mozilla, the image shows, but in
reality it is only linked from the orignal location instead of being embedded
into the page. 

This means that when someone sees the mail offline, the image does not load. 

Would NS 4.x behavior not be more useful?

Comment 1

[Sam J. Fleet]

It will be helpful if the bugzilla helper is being used.  It make the bug report
less confusing.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

The current behavior (since at least Mozilla 1.5) is that an image dragged into 
an HTML compose window is included in the message, altho it does not show as an 
attachment. (The mail is sent as multipart/related rather than multipart/mixed.)

So long as the mail actually *is* sent as HTML, the image is available for 
offline reading.

See also:
 bug 180997: embedded images not sent when mail converted to plain text
 bug 176416: <img> links with remote (http:) addresses are attached to mail
   rather than left as remote references.