171875 - If I forward a "multi-part message in MIME format" the body would disappear

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(MailNews Core :: MIME, defect)

Description

[Peter Forgacs]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910

If an e-mail is "a multi-part message in MIME format" and you try forward it the
body of the message would disappear.
The target person get a message which contain one line only:
"This is a multi-part message in MIME format."
I saw my "Sent" folder and I saw this line too:
"This is a multi-part message in MIME format."

The "Reply" works correctly.

I will attach a sample mail.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Peter Forgacs]

Attachment: This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

This e-mail has the bug. Try forward it.

Comment 2

[Peter Forgacs]

Attachment: Second sample

Comment 3

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

Using yesterday trunk build on Win2K, I am not able to reproduce this problem
either when doing forward inline (HTML compose), Forward Inline (Plain Text
compose) or Forward as attachment!

Peter, can you try a more recent build?

Comment 4

[esther]

dup of 168386, which was reproduced with  the 9-17 branch and trunk builds.  I
will also check to see if that bug still exists the latest builds.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 168386 ***

Comment 5

[esther]

Note, this is is a dup if the reporter was forwarding inline in plain text
format. I will wait for reporter to confirm that criteria, reopening until then.

Comment 6

[Arnaud Ladrière]

I have a very similar bug here : I answered a message I got from a friend, which
is a multi-part message with mime, and the recipient an nearly empty message,
with the sole sentence : "This is a multi-part message in MIME format"

My version is 1.2.1 on win2k. My reply options are (in prefs) "As attachment",
Automatically quote, and "start my reply abovethe quoted text"

Comment 7

[Pol Gabriel]

Attachment: an example of a defective signature

Hi,
same problem. mozilla 1.2.1 on NT4 and on W2K, when replying or forwarding or
composing and using the attached signature, message sent contents only the
"multi-part message in MIME form" strings as mentionned ; all contents typed is
lost. If I compose in plain text, no problems ; if the users have a text
signature, no problems. 
Very annoing, makes the mail unusable.

Comment 8

[Josh Steiner]

i've been seeing this bug for a while too, i'm quite sad because its made me
switch back to pine.  i even wiped my profile and reinstalled mozilla to no
avail.  i'd love to help solve this.  i'm using 1.2.1 on win2k.

Comment 9

[esther]

The dup bug was working fine on the trunk build dated 12-26-2002 and again on
1-3-2003. Josh, Pol and Arnaud what is the build date of your app?  If earlier
than 12-26 please take a new build to see if you still see the problem. Thanks 

Comment 10

[Andrew Sterling Hanenkamp]

This bug and 178196 look to be related.

Comment 11

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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