206998 - attachment file corrupted on recipient's end

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 168098

(MailNews Core :: Attachments, defect)

Description

[Orest Skrypuch]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030509
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030509

In sending a *.doc file as an attachment I find that it gets corrupted at the
recipient's end. On further exploration I find that any .doc I send gets
corrupted, and an individual .doc file gets corrupted in EXACTLY THE SAME WAY. I
did a byte by byte comparison, and it looks like a hiccup in the file, with a
few extra copies of bytes put into the file stream. For example a certain 7680
byte file always becomes 7718 bytes.

I tried a different install of 1.4b (as well as 1.3), and different machines for
senders/recipients, even sending the file to myself. The result is always
identical, with identical corruption of the file!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Attach a .doc file using right-click|attach
2. Send the file
3. Recipient saves the file to the desktop

Actual Results:  
File is corrupted.

Expected Results:  
Not corrupt the file.

eComstation 1.03

Comment 1

[Orest Skrypuch]

Attachment: example "original" .doc file

Comment 2

[Orest Skrypuch]

Attachment: the resulting corrupted file - 100% consistent

Comment 3

[Orest Skrypuch]

Just to stress and make clear, a given file is always corrupted in the identical
fashion as shown by a byte by byte comparison of original and received files.
This consistency is preserved for a given file even when changing the
sender/receipients, machines, installs (also true for 1.3).

This also occurs for other short .doc files that I have tried, each given file
is always corrupted in the identical fashion.

* Orest

Comment 4

[Christian Eyrich]

Reporter, although it's a little bit strange you're seeing this on different
machines/installs, it could nevertheless be a dupe of another bug.

Please read through bug 168098 comment 4 and see if that's also the cause of
your problem. Close the bug as dupe if it is - if not, the complete source of an
defective mail with attachment would be nice.

Comment 5

[Orest Skrypuch]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 168098 ***

Comment 6

[Vedran Miletic]

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