220167 - Mozilla Thunderbird does not decode BinHex attachments

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Rimas Kudelis [use needinfo to ping]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 95)
Build Identifier: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/nightly/2003-09-17-1.5/thunderbird-win32.zip

It's something similar to bugs 162171, 163142, 202353, 217104, but in Mozilla 
Thunderbird this time. When you get an attachment encoded in BinHex, 
Thunderbird fails to open it, and saves it incorrectly. 
My OS is Win95, but, i guess, the same applies to all OS'es.

BinHex attachments seem to be already supported in Mozilla Mail/News M5 (April 
27, 2003), so you can probably snip some code out of it to Thunderbird to fix 
this issue.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Send yourself a message with a BinHex-encoded attachment (Use Eudora or Mac 
OE 5 to do it)
2. Open that message in Thunderbird
3. Voila!

Actual Results:  
Thunderbird does not decode the attachment.

Expected Results:  
Thunderbird should have decoded the attachment.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is almost certainly the same as bug 217104

Please see the comments there and retest with a build from tomorrow or newer.

Comment 2

[Rimas Kudelis [use needinfo to ping]]

OK, i'll test it as soon as i see any new nightlies (seems like nobody has been 
compiling them for the past two weeks).

Comment 3

[Scott MacGregor]

I just checked this into the 0.3 branch so the next 0.3 respin will pick it up.

Also it is already fixed on the trunk since this is really just a dupe of 220611.

Comment 4

[Rimas Kudelis [use needinfo to ping]]

Confirming: The bug is fixed now.
Thanks ;)