244424 - Can't attach arbitrary messages

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Frank Winkler]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316

It's possible to forward a message as an attachment but I didn't find a way to
compose a message and attach another one (or more) to it as additional information.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. compose a new message
2. tr to attach any other message(s) to it
3.

Actual Results:  
no way


Expected Results:  
Drag and drop any message into the attachment area of a new message.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

confirming on Linux.
Trying to drag several messages at once to the attachment pane causes this js error:

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code:
0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIDragSession.getData]"  nsresult: "0x80004005
(NS_ERROR_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame ::
chrome://global/content/nsDragAndDrop.js :: anonymous :: line 283"  data: no]


Trying to drag one message at the time seemingly succeeds, but also with JS errors:

Error: can't convert Error to string
Error: sMsgComposeService is not defined
Source File: chrome://messenger/content/messengercompose/MsgComposeCommands.js
Line: 1036


This bug has been reported before, but may have been dupped wrong..
bug 118055 seems to be an earlyer instance.

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

similar/dup: bug 212098

Comment 3

[Bruce Davidson]

WFM Mozilla 1.8a MacOS X 10.3.3.

What version of Mozilla are you using? Are you using POP3 or IMAP? Bug 69957
implies there may be some problems with doing this from IMAP mailboxes, but that
is a very old bug.

This works for me on a POP3 mailbox. I can drag a message from my inbox onto the
attachment area of a compose window. There are known bugs in this area (e.g bug
209629) but the functionality appears to be there.

Comment 4

[Frank Winkler]

I'm using 1.7b on 10.3.3 with an IMAP server. Same thing on Solaris with 1.6 or
TB, but also with IMAP.

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

I just tried dragging a message from an IMAP folder into a composed message and 
sending it, all went as expected.
  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040522

At any rate, this isn't an enhancement request; it's supposed to work per the 
expected results.

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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