184885 - Attaching multiple files to an email actually adds a folder index/directory

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Ian Nartowicz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021210
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021210

When I ctrl-click or shift-click to attach multiple files to an email, the
attachment becomes a folder (see attachment).  In the received email, the folder
shows as being a list of all the files in the folder.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compose email
2. Shift-click or ctrl-click to attach multiple files
3. Send file to yourself

Actual Results:  
One attachment appears, with the name of the folder, and a folder icom.
The received email shows a text attachment with a list of every file in the folder.

Expected Results:  
The selected files should be attached to the email

I discussed this in bug 43015 and was requested to raise a separate bug.

Comment 1

[Ian Nartowicz]

Attachment: Attaching the "folder"

Comment 2

[Ian Nartowicz]

Attachment: Contents of the attachment

Comment 3

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

*** Bug 185759 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Rainer Bielefeld]

Can anyone find our with which build this stared?

Comment 5

[Rainer Bielefeld]

Severity is harder than "normal", it is as least "critical"

Comment 6

[Ian Nartowicz]

Rainer, it may always have been like this.  Until sometime around the end of
September 2002, it wasn't possible to do multiple attachments at all.  Seth
produced a patch for Win32 to attach multiple files at once, but I suspect that
Win98 never worked correctly?  Maybe Seth could comment if he knows whether it
ever worked right in Win98.  See bug #43015 and bug #121122 for the full history.

Comment 7

[Rainer Bielefeld]

Ian, please have a look to Bug 185759!
I used this function (attatch more than 1 file) in several builds  without any
problem.

Comment 8

[Rainer Bielefeld]

A fist test:

No Problems in
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; de-AT; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021103


Problems  in
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; de-AT; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021122

Comment 9

[Jouflu]

Worked with V1.2.1
Not working with new V1.3a

Comment 10

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 188096 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

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

Adding 'directory' to the summary to enable improved bugzilla searches.

Comment 12

[Rainer Bielefeld]

Today I tried again and had _no_ problem with
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; de-AT; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030105

I have no idea concerning the reason.

Comment 13

[Jouflu]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20030106

Seems to be solved into my version too!

Comment 14

[Rainer Bielefeld]

I will watch that "progress by chance" for more or less 2 weeks; if the bug will
not have reappeared, I will make the bug WFM

Comment 15

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

Marking worksforme.  This way, only if we see it again, can we reopen it.

This is better for tracking; having 'fixed' (worksforme, actually, since we
can't point to a single fix) bugs lying around as open is distracting to the
triage process.

Comment 16

[Ian Nartowicz]

WFM 2003010608 and 2003010808.  Weird.

Comment 17

[Christian Franke]

I had Problems in 1.3a:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

No Problems in 1.3b:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210

THX!-)

Comment 18

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 188437 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***