254251 - Thunderbird could not open attach file with filename that has "#" or spaces in it

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 243504

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[chitotuason]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

Thunderbird version 0.7.2 (20040707)
could not open attach file with filename that has "#" or spaces in it

when i double click the attachment "AZ#12345.xls" and select Open with, the OK
button is disabled.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Double click the attachment
2 [review]. Select app from the open with option
3. OK button remains disabled.

Actual Results:  
OK button remains disabled.

Expected Results:  
OK button should be enabled.

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

I guess because the filename is truncated (with extension).

See Bug 239192 and all the blocked bugs (Thunderbird and Mailnews).

Comment 2

[chitotuason]

Mozilla Thunderbird
version 0.7.3 (20040803)

with Open with or Save to Disk, the OK button remains disabled.

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Content-Type: application/msexcell;
 name="RMA50830.xls"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: inline;
 filename="RMA50830.xls"

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 243504 ***