172037 - attached e-mails are not treated as a normal e-mail

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Attachments, defect)

Description

[wallycrooze]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826

E-mails attached within e-mails... attempting to read the attached e-mail uses
navigator rather than treating it as a normal e-mail.

This may be okay for simple e-mails, but when the e-mail contains more
attachments, navigator displays the text encoding.

Nb. Attached e-mails appear differently when generated from different clients.
    i.e. icon displayed by mozilla are different.
    1. generated from mozilla - appears as an unidentified object
    2. generated from outlook - appears as an e-mail icon


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. forward an e-mail as an attachment
   (more effective if attached e-mail contains an attachment)
2. receive using mozilla
3. display e-mail
4. note the icon of attached e-mail
5. double-click on attached e-mail


Actual Results:  
navigator displays mail source (same as if you clicked on "View->Message Source")


Expected Results:  
should have opened the e-mail in a mail window... so you can view the e-mail and
open an other attachments. (just like M$ Outlook)

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

This has been fixed (somewhat) since Moz 1.4; but see bug 204350 and its various 
dependents.