224095 - Sending Mail From Winzip ("zip and email"-Option) leads to an error when trying to send mail ("unable to open the temporary file")

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 189174

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect)

Description

[Hartmut Wiehle]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

Try to email a zipped file.  Use the right mouse button to
select Winzip\Zip and Email...  - this works.  Then the mail-client
comes up (Mozilla'S Messenger, version 1.5).  When trying to send the
email the Mail-Client says that the temporary file is not avialable,
suggesting to check the temporary directory.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Try to email a zipped file.  Go to Windows Explorer and use the right mouse
button to select Winzip\Zip and Email...  - this works.  
Then the mail-client comes up (Mozilla'S Messenger, version 1.5), the zipped
file can be seen as and attachment.  
Try to send the email after entering email-adress and subject.
Actual Results:  
When trying to send the email the Mail-Client says that the temporary file is
not avialable, suggesting to check the temporary directory.

In fact, the shown temporary directory is invalid:
Shown is:     C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Hartmut\Lokale
Einstellungen\Temp\xxxxxx

Whereby xxxxxx is varying, e.g. WZZM367D

Expected Results:  
Mail should be sent with zipped file attached.

Winzip technical support tells: Note that the MAPI dll file included
with Netscape 7 and the current Mozilla releases have a flaw which would
cause that behaviour.

In the Netscape/Mozilla Mail program, the message is created, you can
see a Zip file in the Attachments window of the message, but the Zip
file does not exist on the hard disk.  When you try to send the message
you get an error message:

   Sending of the message failed. Please verify that your
   Mail & Newsgroups account settings are correct and try again.

The mapi dll is exiting and returning control to WinZip before the user
sends the email message.  As a result we delete the file thinking the
application is done with it.  The only solution would be if we can find
a setting in Netscape/Mozilla that prevents MAPI from exiting before the
user clicks the send button or if we can find a setting in which
Netscape copies the attachment to its own area before returning from the
MAPI call.  Unfortunately, we were unable to find any such setting.

This occurs in both WinZip 8.0 and WinZip 8.1.

Comment 1

[WD]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 189174 ***