245284 - RTF file renders improperly in preview pane

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Andrew Dorney]

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

First, my specs:

Windows 98SE, all applicable updates
Thunderbird 0.6

I composed an .rtf file using OpenOffice.org 1.1.1, and e-mailed it to two of my
friends. Both of them received an e-mail that looked like the following:

*EDIT*
{\rtf1\ansi\deff0\adeflang1025
{\fonttbl{\f0\froman\fprq2\fcharset0 Times New
Roman;}{\f1\froman\fprq2\fcharset0 Times New Roman;}{\f2\froman\fprq2\fcharset0
Times New Roman;}{\f3\fnil\fprq2\fcharset0 Tahoma;}}
{\colortbl;\red0\green0\blue0;\red0\green0\blue128;\red128\green0\blue0;\red128\green128\blue128;}
{\stylesheet{\s1\rtlch\af3\afs24\lang255\ltrch\dbch\af3\afs24\langfe255\loch\fs24\lang1033\snext1
Default;}
{\*\cs3\cf0\rtlch\af0\afs24\lang255\ltrch\dbch\af0\afs24\langfe255\loch\f0\fs24\lang1033
RTF_Num 2 1;}
{\*\cs4\cf2\ul\rtlch\af3\afs24\lang255\ltrch\dbch\af3\afs24\langfe255\loch\fs24\lang1033
Internet Link;}
{\*\cs5\cf3\ul\rtlch\af3\afs24\lang255\ltrch\dbch\af3\afs24\langfe255\loch\fs24\lang1033
Visited Internet Link;}
*EDIT FOR BREVITY'S SAKE*


When I view it in my preview pane, it shows the exact same rendering as on their
mail clients (AOL is one, I'm not sure of the other, cuz he's on a Macintosh).

Is this an issue you have seen before? I wasn't able to find this exact problem
in any other bug report. RTF files, IMHO, should either render properly with
their applicable formatting or should be left as attachments to be opened.

If you have any other questions, please feel free to e-mail me at:
[e-mail]

Thanks! Thunderbird Rocks!

~~ Andrew D.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a document in OpenOffice.org 1.1.1
2. E-mail to someone
3. Open "Sent Items" folder, find message, and view in preview pane.

Actual Results:  
The message I sent to my friend was produced accurately. The RTF file was
garbled, however, in the preview pane below my message.

Expected Results:  
Thunderbird should either render the RTF file accurately or not render it at all.

Comment 1

[Andrew Dorney]

"The message I sent to my friend was produced accurately. The RTF file was
garbled, however, in the preview pane below my message."

I apologize, that was unclear.

The personal message I sent to my friend was produced accurately in the preview
pane. Below that was a horizontal rule separating my message from the RTF file.
It was the preview of the RTF file, which was garbled.

Comment 2

[Turadg Aleahmad]

I think this should be changed to CONFIRMED.  I've experienced this same 
problem with Thunderbird 0.8 on Windows XP.

Comment 3

[Christophe Porteneuve]

I think I can provide a bit more info on this one.

First, my TB 1.0 sent a demo RTF attachment (created with OOo 1.1) with the
following MIME headers:

Content-Type: application/msword; name="coin.rtf"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: inline; filename="coin.rtf"

While the "inline" disposition may be questionable (who wants to get automatic
inline display of a 100-page RTF file, for instance?), the headers look right,
and my TB 1.0 displays it fine.

However, a TB 1.0 (20041206, same as mine) sent an email with two attachments,
one .doc and one .rtf, and the RTF MIME part had the following headers:

Content-Type: text/richtext; name="CV Gukhool.rtf"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline; filename="CV Gukhool.rtf"

When TB 1.0 encounters an inline text/richtext (and, I suspect, a text/*) part,
it attempts to display it inline. Which, of course, produces ugly stuff for RTF.

The question is then: WHY oh WHY does TB 1.0 sometimes send RTF stuff as
text/richtext? Or, if this behavior is deemed correct, WHY does it attempt to
display it inline, when it does not have that capability?

Please move that to CONFIRMED.

Comment 4

[lilou]

Hi
some tests :

the problem :
when receiving with thunderbird a mail with an attachment which is a .rtf file,
at the end of the mail, the attachment appears as 
"{\rtf1\adeflang1025\ansi\ansicpg1252\uc1\adeff0\deff0\stshfdbch0\stshfloch0\stshfhich0\stshfbi0\de
[..etc..]"

reproductible with :
OS : windows
with thunderbird 1.0.2 
the .rtf attachment create with OpenOffice Writer or Microsoft Word
the mail client of the mail sender : all (NOT only thunderbird)
lilou.leuwen at tiscali.fr

Comment 5

[Neil Fraser]

Does this bug still exist?  I just mailed myself a test RTF using Thunderbird
1.0.6 and it treated the RTF just like a DOC attachment.  No inline display
(despite what the source says).

Content-Type: application/msword;
 name="Neil Fraser.rtf"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: inline;
 filename="Neil Fraser.rtf"

I agree that this bug was really annoying.  But I think it may be gone now.

Comment 6

[Andrew Dorney]

I agree... I also sent myself an RTF file using 1.0.6, and it was shown just
like the other files one sends. I'm going to change this to fixed. Yay!

~~ Andrew D.