190141 - Sending a message with an HTML or TEXT signature and an attchment to an Outlook user results in corrupted attachments.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 189977

(MailNews Core :: Attachments, defect)

Description

[Olivier Prompt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; fr-FR; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030113
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; fr-FR; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030113

Sending a mail that use an HTML signature (same problem with a plaintext
signature) and an attachment file (ex : PDF, ZIP...) to an Outlook user (Outlook
2000 and Outlook XP) results in a non usable/corrupted attachment.

The Outlook users I sent messages where unable to use the PDF, ZIP... files
attached to my message until I re-send the same message but without the signature.

Problem encountered with Mozilla 1.1, 1.2, 1.2.1,  and 1.3x.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Edit->Prefs->Mail->Send Format : "send the message in both HTML and plain text"
2. Edit->Mail & News Account Settings -> Attach this Signature : path to an HTML
signature
3. Compose a new mail
4. Attach a file (PDF,ZIP, whatever)
5. Send the mail to a user using Outlook 2000 or Outlook XP (Haven't tried with
other version)

Actual Results:  
Outlook user receive the mail but cannot use the attchments. If it tries to save
or open the attachment he gets a corrupted file.

Expected Results:  
The outlook user should have been able to read or save the attachment.

This problem has been encountered by other people at office using the same
feature in Mozilla (HTML + TEXT formatted  mail + signature + attachement).

There is no problem when the message is opened using another mail client (no pb
with Mozilla and no pb with Hotmail web accounts)

If I compose the mail and remove the signature before sending my message there
is no problem for the outlook user : he can use the attached files.

Comment 1

[Andrew Hagen]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 189977 ***

Comment 2

[Vedran Miletic]

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