203799 - Can't add or save attachments - thunderbird on Solaris

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Iain MacDonnell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030429 Mozilla Firebird/0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030429 Mozilla Firebird/0.6


I'm hesitant to log this as a bug, since the status of Thunderbird on the
trunk is still not clear, but I'm getting tired of it, so here goes...

I build my own Thunderbird from the (unpatched) trunk every night, using Forte
tools on Solaris 9. It's been working really well for a few days now, with one
exception - I still can't get attachments to or from the UNIX filesystem - it
seems that the "save as" and "open" dialogs are just not there. I've seen this
reported for Linux on the fora (when they were available), so maybe it's a
general UNIX thing. I'm still using Thunderbird full-time for my three mail
accounts, and am otherwise very happy with it.

Also, if I try to "save as" a message, I get an error dialog that says:

 "Unable to save the message. Please check your file name and try again later".

I'm not sure how it's expected that anything will be better later :)






Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to "save as" anything
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Either nothing, or the error:

 "Unable to save the message. Please check your file name and try again later".

Expected Results:  

Present me with a filesystem dialog

Comment 1

[Roland Mainz]

Over to thunderbird...

Comment 2

[Stephen Walker]

Is this still a problem?

Comment 3

[Iain MacDonnell]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Is this still a problem?

No, it's been working fine for some months now... for me, at least.