21916 - attachments=body is not shown inline...

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(MailNews Core :: MIME, defect, P3)

Description

[Henrik Gemal]

If you compose a mail in Outlook, attach a GIF image, and leave the body field
of the mail empty you'll end up with mail structure that has no body but only
an attachment as described in http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19529

But this GIF image is not shown inline in Mozilla. If I attach a GIF
image and write something in the body, the GIF image is shown inline!

Shown't it be showned inline in both cases since it's a GIF image?

Comment 1

[Phil Peterson]

Reassign to rhp

Comment 2

[rhp (gone)]

Yes it would show if the Content-Disposition was "inline", but when outlook
sends these mail messages, they set the Content-Disposition to "attachment". We
respect these settings and do the right thing.

I really don't think this is the way you should send an attached image file. I
believe it should be a multipart mixed, but Outlook seems to do this.

- rhp

Comment 3

[pmock]

Verified as invalid.  I viewed a message sent from Outlook and verified that the
content-disposition is "attachment" instead of "inline".  Seamonkey displays the
gif file as an attachment.  This is the same behavior in Communicator 4.7


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ftp://sweetlou/products/client/seamonkey/macos/8.x/ppc/1999-12-17-10-M12/NSMacInstaller-M12.sea.bin