21422 - Need a better error message when can't attach a file

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 23462

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect, P3)

Description

[Chris Waterson]

I tried to mail ducarroz a DLL today. It gave me an error message "0xFFFFFFF".

Comment 1

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

Are you able to send a message without attachment?

Comment 2

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

I can reproduce the problem. Seems because you try to attach a dll which are
curently used (by Mozila).

Comment 3

[lchiang]

Could this be related to: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21025?

We have also a general bug, http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17445,
which states that a better error is needed (if it is the case that it is
valid that we can't send a .dll when in use)

Comment 4

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

We definitively need a better way to manage this kind of error. M14, not dogfood
anymore

Comment 5

[Phil Peterson]

Why can't we send a DLL which is in use? Are we trying to open for write access
or exclusive access? Lots of processes are allowed to read the same DLLs at the
same time...

Comment 6

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

We probably open the file in read/write mode!

Comment 7

[selmer (gone)]

Minor UI fixups to M18.  If this is incorrect, please adjust.

Comment 8

[sol]

Moving to future milestone, since the problem seems to be isolated to attaching 
dll's which are currently being used by the application, which is not a common 
end user scenario.

Comment 9

[varada]

Adding mail3 keyword.

Comment 10

[scottputterman]

marking nsbeta1-

Comment 11

[Keyser Sose]

Dupe of 23462 Marking as such.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 23462 ***

Comment 12

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

verified dup of 23462, "Trying to send non existing attached file gives me no error"