183948 - Attachments cannot be viewed in certain "Long String" situations (see bug 91662)

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Bryan W. Headley]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

As an affect of resolution to bug 91662 (long strings), if the size of an
attachment forces Moz to resize the attachment box, the message area, or the
folders area, the name of the attachment does not appear in the attachment box.

Solution: The user must exit Mozilla. Upon restarting, displaying the same
message in the mail browser frequently will display the textual name of the
attachment. (Infrequently, but does happen, it will not. In which case you exit
Mozilla again and again until it works) Once the attachment's name is visible,
you can highlight it, and right-click to Open, Save or Save-As.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. It seems to be related to whether the Long String patch is executed, and
there is an attachment, and the length of the attachment's name is itself a long
string. I.E., it happens, and you don't know why. You restart, and it works.
Something is not being re-initialized between mail messages viewed.
2.
3.


Expected Results:  
Okay. The attachment's name is deemed "long". Instead of resizing the attachment
box so it's completely viewable, it should recognize that it needs a horizontal
scrollbar, and quit trying to resize the message area, and the message folder area.

Have a screenshot; will attach with bug.

Comment 1

[Bryan W. Headley]

Attachment: Screenshot of the Mail Client

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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