216981 - Text Files get attached inline

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 161775

(MailNews Core :: Attachments, defect)

Description

[John Simmonds]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

When you attach text files or text formatted files, they often appear in the
body of the sent e-mail, rather then as a attached file. Allot of users mail
clients won't show the attached file, just the text mozilla insertted inline.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Write the e-mail, to addresss, etc.
2. Attach a text file, such as transfer.txt
3. Send it to a non-mozzila client like Lotus Notes or Outlook

Actual Results:  
Check the sent folder of the mozzila client and you will see that the text file
was atttached to the e-mail but is also rendered in the body of the message.
On the non-mozzila client you will see that there is no attached file, the text
has been insertted in the body of the message.

Expected Results:  
Delivered the text file as an attachment as requestted. One that is compatible
with other clients, even MS ones :(

Comment 1

[Olivier Cahagne]

can you try again with latest 1.5 nightly build ?

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

John Simmonds, if I understand your bug correctly, you are complaining that when 
you look at the message in the Sent folder, the text is displayed inline in that 
message.  This is normal Mozilla behavior: when displaying (not composing) a 
message, it will show attachments inline, if possible (images, text, HTML, etc). 
There is a horizontal rule dividing the text content of the message from its 
attachments.  But it is still an attachment, and can be saved or opened.

If a receiving client does not inline attachments as Mozilla does, then the text 
will not be visible when the message is displayed.

You can verify this by viewing the source of the sent message; the message body 
part contains only the body text entered into the mail; the attachment is a 
separate part.

Marking this bug Invalid.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

you can unselect the inline attachment view under "view/Display Attachments Inline"

Comment 4

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

Verified INVALID.

Comment 5

[John Simmonds]

Mike Cowperthwaite, that is not what I am saying. Quote from my original comment
"Check the sent folder of the mozzila client and you will see that the text file
was atttached to the e-mail but is also rendered in the body of the message.
On the non-mozzila client you will see that there is no attached file, the text
has been insertted in the body of the message."

Comment 6

[John Simmonds]

What I am basicly trying to say is that if you have in-line turned on and reply
or forward an e-mail with an attached text file the text file will appear to be
atched according to Mozzilla but when it arrives at its recipents e-mail box,
it's  not attached but displying in-line. 

Comment 7

[Richard Godbee]

The problem is that Mozilla seems to give all attachments it deems are text/plain a content-
disposition of inline.  While Mozilla may be smart enough to both display such attachments in the 
body of the message and offer a way to save the attachment, other mail clients aren't so bright.  
This creates all kinds of problems when you (for example) attach a couple of files of source code 
to a message and send it to someone using Eudora -- Eudora displays all of the files inline with no 
boundaries and no way to save the individual attachments.

Comment 8

[John Simmonds]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 161775 ***