Closed Bug 190186 Opened 22 years ago Closed 22 years ago

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

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(MailNews Core :: MIME, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
major

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(Not tracked)

VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 106461

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(Reporter: dcamp, Assigned: bugzilla)

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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.
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.
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///////////////////////////////////// ...
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.
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 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Verified dup
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: MailNews → Core
Product: Core → MailNews Core
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