190186 - I have never seen any indication of received attachments other than those which can be displayed inline

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 106461

(MailNews Core :: MIME, defect)

Description

[Christian Campbell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

Attached JPEGs and GIFs display inline; attached emails display inline; no other
types of attachment display at all (inline nor as links). The only indication
anywhere that there is an attachment is the message size and of course the
source. The File | Attachments saving feature comes up empty.

Workaround is to save message as an EML file, load with Navigator 4.79, where
attachments are handled properly. I can find no workaround within Mozilla.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Receive an email with an attachment other than a picture or email.
Actual Results:  
Message display ends before said attachment. No icons or links anywhere
indicating an attachment. The attachment save feature on the file menu comes up
empty.

Expected Results:  
Showed link or something indicating an attachment so I can right click it and do
something with it.

Comment 1

[Christian Campbell]

Attachment: Screen shot of no attachment link, File | Attachments being empty, and multipart message source

Comment 2

[John T]

My version is Mozilla 1.3a.

I received a forwarded message with mime format and a base64 section. The base64
part doesn't appear, though it shows in the source window. It was a multiply
forwarded item. I'm pretty sure that base64 mime shows up properly if it's not
forwarded.

Didn't some previous versions of mozilla mail give the choice of uu-encoding,
base64-encoding, etc? There may be no choice of encoding offered for attachments
now, only base64. So that format ought to be properly decoded and displayed.

This is a failure to process a received mime-format email. I have no idea what
happens on sending, or whether mime types or attachments other than base64 have
this problem. Mailing and forwarding various kinds of attachments to oneself or
a colleague might help to clarify the problem. 

Comment 3

[Kalin Kozhuharov]

I just got one such mail in 1.3a on Linux.

However it shows the attachment in File|Attachments. Also it displays a clip
icon in front of the Subject in the upper, right pane (Using Sky Pilot Theme).

Problem is it does not display in the lower left pane, where MSG is displayed.
Usually there is a list of all the attachments in a mail. Now it is empty.

I can forward the e-mail to the interested people, just couldn't figure out how
to attach it to this bug :-( 

The MSG itself goes as:

Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
 boundary="------------000801020105060807040502"

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
--------------000801020105060807040502
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit


--------------000801020105060807040502
Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="Picture.wmf"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Picture.wmf"

0M8R4KGxGuEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPgADAP7/CQAGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAAAAQAAAAAA
AAAAEAAAAgAAAAEAAAD+////AAAAAAAAAAD/////////////////////////////////////
...

Comment 4

[Jenn Cartee]

I am seeing the problem as described by the original poster - messages that are
known to have attachments (it doesn't matter whether or not they are forwarded,
and as best as I can tell it happens for *all* messages with attachments except
as described below for image and text attachments) do not display them:

- there is no paperclip icon before or after "downloading" the message (using IMAP)

- text parts and images display inline

- all parts are visible in View Source

- There is no attachment list window at all (no UI, period, not an empty list).
 This is true for the messages with image and text attachments as well.

- File -> Attachments just shows "Save All", which fails.  This is true for the
messages with image and text attachments as well.

Win 98, Mozilla 1.2.1.

There was a system crash that immediately preceded the appearance of this bug,
but I have uninstalled and reinstalled 1.2.1 twice after said crash with no effect.

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

The attached screenshot shows that the 'envelope' of the message is not
displayed correctly -- rather than a separate header panel, the headers are
shown in the message proper, with a grey background color.  This is a known
symptom of the duplicate, which has been fixed.
Christian Campbell, if you are still encountering this problem with Mozilla 1.4,
feel free to reopen this bug; otherwise, please mark it Verified.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 106461 ***

Comment 6

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified dup