1863033 - sometimes drag and drop of attachment to compose window attached completely wrong file (seems dangerous?)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Ellie]

Attachment: video_showing_drag_and_drop_resulting_in_completely_wrong_attachment.webm

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:120.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/120.0

Steps to reproduce:

Drag and drop of attachment attached completely wrong file (seems dangerous?), see attached video for steps. I just dragged it over. This happened with Thunderbird 115.4.1 (64-bit) on openSUSE Leap 15.5, dragging over from Nautilus 41.5 with the window manager being GNOME Shell 41.9 with mutter 41.9. I'm pretty sure it's a Wayland session. Usually drag and drop works correctly but this seems like a pretty major issue, so my apologies that I'm filing this bug despite not knowing how exactly to reproduce this.

Actual results:

Completely unrelated, but actual past e-mail shows up as attachment. If I had hit sent without double-checking, that would have been pretty bad.

Expected results:

Correct attachment is added.

Comment 2

[Ellie]

I don't see how this could possibly be the same bug. Just check the video, I'm dragging over a .pdf and it attaches an .eml so I don't understand how that is possibly a filename clash.

Comment 3

[Ellie]

After thinking about it some more, I wonder if the fix could however still be related? :-o If a badly placed file in some temp folder with the wrong name can cause such shenanigans, I feel like that could have a slight relation via that. I just don't understand how in this case that happened since a direct same name PDF doesn't seem like it. Really curious.

Sadly I haven't seen this since then, and also never before, so I don't even have a clue how to reproduce it. I guess it might need to be closed as WORKSFORME eventually :-( oh well

Comment 4

[Hartmut Welpmann [:welpy-cw]]

(In reply to Ellie from comment #3)

Sadly I haven't seen this since then, and also never before, so I don't even have a clue how to reproduce it. I guess it might need to be closed as WORKSFORME eventually :-( oh well

Has this ever happened again?

Comment 5

[Ellie]

So far it hasn't happened again, no. I'm not sure why it stopped, maybe it was some openSUSE specific issue? (I am no longer using openSUSE like I was back then.)

Comment 6

[Hartmut Welpmann [:welpy-cw]]

Thanks for reporting back. Let's close this for now. If this should ever happen again, we can always reopen the bug again.