246042 - Saving Mail as '.EML' doesn't work on Network Drives

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Markus Freericks]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 0.6 (20040502)

When i try to save a mail message (ordinary message, no attachments) to a smb
share (mounted as a network drive under xp), nothing happens. 

Saving to the same path works when saving as .txt. 

Saving to a local drive (e.g. the desktop) works as well. 

There appears no error message. I tried different file names, as well as target
directories of different depth.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. open mail
2. file > save as > file
3. choose a network drive
4. choose a name, e.g. "foo.eml"
5. click "save"

Actual Results:  
nothing

Expected Results:  
a new file "foo.eml" should have appeared

the smb share runs under samba

Comment 1

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

hange 'eml' in summary to '.eml' for ease of search ('extremly' will hit).

Comment 2

[mark bannister]

When saving to network drive (network server Samba 2.x) I get the message:
"foobar.eml
You do not have permission to open this file.

See the owner of this file or administrator for permission"

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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