Closed Bug 217118 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

Pages of type message/rfc822 should display properly

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

x86
Linux
enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: eric-bugs, Unassigned)

References

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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703

When a web server returns a document of type message/rfc822, the browser should
do something intelligent.  After all, Mozilla has a built in mail reader.

This would be great for mailing list archives and such.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Got to the demonstration URL and it will tell you it doesn't understand
message/rfc822


Actual Results:  
It will tell you it doesn't understand message/rfc822



Expected Results:  
Displayed the email message in some intelligent way.
WFM, 2003-08-19-05 trunk Linux
Oops.  I installed the mozilla-mail package, and then it worked.  *sheepish
grin*  I should've tried that in the first place.  I just don't use Mozilla as
an email client.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
v.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Firebird isn't able to display the message either, because it doesn't have a
mailer. Neither did Safari, btw. Maybe we should file a bug on Firebird to
provide  support for message/rfc822.

If you want to show these messages in a browser, they should probably be sent in
plain text or html. You can't depend on the browser.

I filed bug 217118 (Firebird) and bug 217149 (Thunderbird) for related issues.
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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