218912 - "Edit as new' does not work for messages being attachments(message/rfc822 part) of other messages

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[wazow]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pl-PL; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pl-PL; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827

"Edit as new" does not work, if you want to edit an attachment of the message,
which is a message itself (the entry in the menu is accessible).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Forwards a message as an attachment to yourself (or send a message to a non
existing mail address to receive an error notification with original message
attached)
2. Open the message (after it arrives)
3. Open the attachment (which is another message)
4. Right-click on the body of the message and select "Edit as new..."

Actual Results:  
Nothing happens

Expected Results:  
The new message composition with message content should pop up

This may be a dup of bug 149666, but the description there is so bad that I
can't figure out if we are speaking of the same thing.

Note that "Edit as new" is particularly useful for sending again messages which
were returned with an error. It would be nice to make it work (or make mozilla
support resending this messages more explicitly).

Comment 1

[Joe Infla]

149666 isn't related.  This bug may be a dupe of bug 2920 by way of bug 121728.
 Or possibly bug 91515...

Comment 2

[wazow]

Ooops! I did meant that it might be a dup of bug 91515. Must have copeied&pasted
th id from the wrong bug. It is bug 91515, that I can't understand if it is
saying the same thing or not.

Comment 3

[timeless]

i believe it's none of those.

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 227222 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

When Edit-as-New is attempted on the attachment (in a standalone message 
window), the JavaScript console dumps this error:

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 
0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIMsgMessageService.messageURIToMsgHdr]"  
nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame :: chrome:
//messenger/content/mailCommands.js :: ComposeMessage :: line 215"  data: no]

Also note:  Edit as New   under the window's Message menu is disabled; it's only 
enabled via the context menu on the body.

See also bug 231282.

Comment 6

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

Add "message/rfc822" in summary for ease of search.

Comment 7

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

This bug has been fixed by the patch to bug 204350.