239031 - Incredimail multipart/alternative emails not displaying correctly

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Daniel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.4 (20031205)

When opening an email from an incredimail account using Thunderbird 4.0 that is
in multipart/alternative format. The email appears as just a gif (which is the
background image). I have to view the source in order to get the content of the
message.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open a multipart/alternative email sent from an incredimail account
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
The email is incorrectly displayed. It displays an image file that it has
attached to the email.

Expected Results:  
A multipart/alternative email. With a background image, text and possibly emoticons.

Comment 1

[Daniel]

Attachment: An email where this problem occurs

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

The message is incorrectly structured, as:
  multipart/alternative
    multipart/alternative
      text/plain
      text/html
    image/gif
    image/gif
    image/jpeg

This means that the message is composed of four parts, and the client should 
display the last (sequential) part that it can handle -- the image/jpeg, in this 
case.

IncrediMail *should* have structured it:
  multipart/alternative
    text/plain
    multipart/related
      text/html
      image/gif
      image/gif
      image/jpg

That is, two alternative parts, the second of which consists of an HTML body and 
the three images it references.