Closed Bug 259339 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

FEATURE REQUEST: Support for multi-part and y-enc encoded binary newsgroup postings

Categories

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
General
Platform:
All
Windows XP
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 60981

People

(Reporter: adam.schweitzer, Assigned: mscott)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

The Thunderbird program does not support multi-part (ie. the complete file spans
several messages) or y-enc encoded (www.yenc.org) binary newsgroup postings.

Request that this be included in the next version.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit a newsgroup with yenc or multi-part messages
2. Attempt to download the posting/file within
3.

Actual Results:  
The file is not downloaded (multipart), or a long string of nonsensical
characters (yenc) is displayed.

Expected Results:  
For multipart, should have option to combine the postings (like Outlook
Express).  For yenc, Thunderbird should recognize and properly decode these
postings.
yenc is bug 119964.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 60981 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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