228002 - attachments corrupted when sent from hotmail and displayed inline

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 121297

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Drew Devereux]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031022 Firebird/0.7+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031022 Firebird/0.7+

Whenever I receive an email containing a text file attachment from a hotmail
account AND I am displaying attachments inline, saving the attachment to disk
incorrectly results in a file with the string "<div class="moz-text-flowed"
style="font-family: -moz-fixed">" prepended.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Log into a hotmail account and send yourself an email with a text file
attachment.
2. Pull up your Thunderbird 0.4 client and view the email.
3. Ensure you are displaying attachments inline.
4. Save the file to disk.
5. View the file.
Actual Results:  
The file is incorrectly prepended with the string: "<div class="moz-text-flowed"
style="font-family: -moz-fixed">".

e.g. if the original attachment contained only the string "This is a test.",
then the file saved to disk will contain the string "<div
class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">This is a test."


Expected Results:  
The string should not be prepended to the saved file.

I have fooled around a bit with Thunderbird compose and send settings, but I
have been unable to repro this problem using Thunderbird as the send client.

I haven't tried any clients other than hotmail, and Thunderbird 0.4 and 0.4RC1
on WinXP, so I don't know the extent of this problem

There is an easy workaround: just turn "display settings inline" off before saving.

Strictly speaking this is data loss, so severity is critical.  But it is very
minor data loss with an easy workaround.   I'll leave it to the bug reviewer to
decide severity.

Comment 1

[Drew Devereux]

Just noticed something else:  When multiple attachments are sent and saved to
disk, all but one of the files will have "</div>" appended.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 121297 ***