218795 - cannot find attachment at moment of SEND

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 157566

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Russell Millington]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.2 (20030901)

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.2 (20030901) and  WinZip 8.1 SR1 or BETA 9.0
see "Steps to reproduce"

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. right click on a file and select "WinZip / zip and email..."
2. Winzip creates a file in %temp%
3. File shows in Thunserbird attachments box but is no longer in the %temp% dir
4. Click on SEND and Thunderbird reports it cannot find the specified file

Actual Results:  
The email fails to send as Thunderbird cannot find its attachment

Expected Results:  
Thunderbird should have sent the file

This same bug report has been submitted to WinZip

Comment 1

[Russell Millington]

Response received from Winzip Technical Support

The MAPI API for the Netscape and Mozilla email programs is not
compatible with WinZip; it incorrectly signals WinZip that the file has
been sent, and WinZip subsequently removes the archive.

Comment 2

[Malte Rücker (mbr)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 157566 ***