235851 - attachments in MS-Word format get corrupted when sent to hotmail and similar webmail

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Reinhard Lamsfuss]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

When sending a mail with an attachment in x.doc format, it arrives corrupted at
the hotmail account. There would not be any attachment at all, instead of that
you  will see unreadable symbols a the bottom of the message like this: поЮ║╠А


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. send an email with word attachment to a hotmail account
2. open the message in the hotmail account
3. Try to find and open the attachment

Actual Results:  
The attachment had disappeared

Expected Results:  
word attachment should be correctly delivered to webmail accounts

When saving the same message with Netscape 4.8 in a shared mail folder with
Thunderbird, f.ex. "drafts" oder "unsent messages" and later sending it with TB
the problem doesn't occur

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Which version of TB was this bug reported for?

Possible dupe of bug 236239 -- need more information about the message, please 
see that bug.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

No response from reporter; =>WFM
Reinhard Lamsfuss, feel free to reopen this, but please provide a response to 
comment 1 if you do.

Comment 3

[Reinhard Lamsfuss]

(In reply to comment #2)
> No response from reporter; =>WFM
> Reinhard Lamsfuss, feel free to reopen this, but please provide a response to 
> comment 1 if you do.

TB 0.7. The problem doesn't ocurr any more with 0.8 and 0.9. So consider it
resolved. Thanks. Reinhard