235704 - Forwarding an HTML message with distant images embeds the images (attachements displayed inline)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 176416

(MailNews Core :: Attachments, defect)

Description

[Olivier Vit (just a reporter)]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040208 

I'm surprised that when forwarding a message, it gets altered significantly to
include the content displaying inline as attachement, and thus rising the size
of the message.
Why altering when forwarding ?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
I received a text/html message from dell, no images embedded in the mail message.
I open the message (allowing display of the images inline)
I forward it to myself
X

Actual Results:  
I received a text/html message from dell, no images embedded in the mail message.
I open the message (allowing display of the images inline)
I forward it to myself
I receive a message with all images attached to e-mail (but displaying properly
inline)



Expected Results:  
Receive the original message embedded into a new one

note : Sending as attachement provides the 'expected' result

Comment 1

[Olivier Vit (just a reporter)]

Attachment: message received originaly, without images as attachments

Comment 2

[Olivier Vit (just a reporter)]

Attachment: forwarded message, with images as attachments

Comment 3

[Olivier Vit (just a reporter)]

revise summary

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

See bug 176416.

Comment 5

[Olivier Vit (just a reporter)]

Looks similar apart the initial lookup for a mozilla specific tag on the image
that would prevent this behavior to happen

I fear that JF is considering his answer on the tag as sufficient for closing
this bug, while I don't believe it justifies this behavior, nor makes it acceptable

What is the reason for this behavior ? How is it explained ? is it a side effect
of something else, or is it by design ?

Comment 6

[Olivier Vit (just a reporter)]

(In reply to comment #4)
> See bug 176416.

OK, is a variation of this bug, but not really a duplicate
How can we progress on these 2 ?!!!

Is there a way to set "moz-do-not-send=true" somewhere in preferences ? nobody
would edit a received message to add such an attribute on all images

Comment 7

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

It *is* a duplicate because the conversion of the links happens at the same 
time, same place, same code: when the message is converted to be sent.  It 
doesn't matter whether the "http:" link text was inserted manually or as part of 
a forward; the entire message text is scanned, and links updated, when the 
message is sent.

As for a fix -- there is no way yet to do what you want.  See the discussion at 
bug 132257.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 176416 ***