183709 - Mozilla fails to display attachments.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 171128

(MailNews Core :: Attachments, defect)

Description

[Chris Gerhard]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021128
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021128

The URL shows a screen shot of my mail reader with a message that has an
attachment that can not be viewed inline.  Note there is no box to display the
attachments.

Note the headers of my messages are displayed "inline". This started happening a
few builds ago (exactly when I don't know) and I think since then I have had no
attachments.  I don't know how to ge the normal view back.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. 
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Expected Results:  
It should display the attachments.

Comment 1

[Peter Mularien]

This occurs for me as well on trunk build 2002120408. I'm attaching a saved eml
file with a simple inline GIF attachment that demonstrates the problem. This
problem occurs with GIF, JPG, and PNG inline attachments.

Comment 2

[Peter Mularien]

Attachment: RFC 822 file with inline GIF attachment

This RFC 822 file can be piped into a mail server to get the mail to show up in
Mozilla, alternatively rename with eml extension and view in Mozilla. On recent
trunk builds, the GIF will not show up.

Comment 3

[Peter Mularien]

My UA String: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a)
Gecko/20021204

Comment 4

[Calum Mackay]

Some more details on Chris' report: this is in IMAP inbox.

The problem relates to something in Chris's profile, since if he tries a fresh
profile, the problem goes away. Of course, this is not really a workaround.

Using the "broken" profile, the problem is *not* visible in 1.1, or in 1.2a, but
is visible in a cvs build 20021128.

The problem is *not* visible to others using this build (nor to Chris, if he
starts a fresh profile).

I cannot see anything obviously wrong in Chris's profile.

Comment 5

[Peter Mularien]

Just adding additional info - I am using a POP3 account.

Comment 6

[R.K.Aa.]

some recent similar bugs: bug 183231, bug 181274

Comment 7

[Chris Gerhard]

If the attachment is a text attachment that can be displayed inline then I see
the attachment inline.

I tried removing all the .rdf files from my profile. Still does not work.

Comment 8

[David :Bienvenu]

dup of 183559 - please try tomorrow's build.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 183559 ***

Comment 9

[Chris Gerhard]

The problem persists in todays build.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021206 

As a user reading the two bug reports this does not  look like the same thing as
bug 183559

Comment 10

[John Anast]

I'm seeing this behavior too (Win98) jpg shows up inline, pdf file can't be
seen. No header twisty or paperclip in divider bar. Can recover file from temp
folder if renamed. Forward the message and attachemnts show up in composition.
Breaks between 1,2a and 1.2b/1.2.1. Creating a new profile blew out my inbox
(oops), but still see the problem.

Comment 11

[Peter Mularien]

Can this bug be reassigned while Scott is on sabbatical? It seems fairly
critical -- Chris, can you facilitate that?

Comment 12

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 184481 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[Gabriel Billington]

Situation for me:  this happens on all my accounts, IMAP and POP3.  The problem
started right after I upgraded from 1.1 to 1.2.1.

I created a new test profile, which did not have this problem.  I deleted all my
rdf files from my "broken" profile, but that didn't solve the problem.

Comment 14

[Peter Mularien]

WFM in build 2002120908! Thanks!

Comment 15

[Gabriel Billington]

Problem persists in 20021210.

Comment 16

[Gabriel Billington]

Attachment: Old address book

Removing this address booked solved the problem with the bug described here.

Comment 17

[Gabriel Billington]

A note of explanation:  the personal address book I just attached was not
showing up in the Address Book window.  When I backed it up and removed it and
restarted Mozilla, a new pab was created (empty) and the problem with message
display vanished.

Comment 18

[Chris Gerhard]

I have just removed my address book, which also did not show up in the address
book window, and now attachments are now working again.

Comment 19

[Chris Gerhard]

Attachment: My address book that results in this failure.

Comment 20

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

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 171128 ***

Comment 21

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

verified dup

Comment 22

[Boying Lu]

I think the root cause is in the function
nsMimeHtmlDisplayEmitter::StartAttachmentInBody(). There are following codes:
  UtilityWrite("<div align=right class=\"headerdisplayname\"
style=\"display:inline;\">");
  UtilityWrite(name);
  UtilityWrite("</div>");

These codes will generate the following html segment:
<div class="headerdisplayname" style="disply: inline;" align="right">NAME</div>

When you open an eml file. You can just see the attached filename. I think we
should change the tag <div> to <a href=...>