Closed Bug 259674 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

V-Cards (vcf attachments) display the paperclip attachment icon resulting in an inability to tell which messages have real attachments

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Mail Window Front End
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
minor

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: ralexander, Assigned: mscott)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10 Nearly all messages in my inbox have .vcf V-Card attachments. The paperclip attachment icon is displaying for all the .vcf attachments. I can't tell which messages actually have attachments. A desirable behavior would be the ability to turn off the attachment icon for certain extensions (or at the very least for .vcf). Thanks! Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Attach a .vcf V-Card to a message with no other attachments 2.Send the message to yourself 3.See the attachment icon in your inbox Actual Results: The paperclip icon shows up in my inbox. Expected Results: I would expect it would treat .vcf attachments as if they were an inline signature instead of treating it as a normal attachment.
Thunderbird 0.8 (20040913)
I agree, that would really be cool (I have the same problem). An option to have it be a different colored icon or something would be cool. This *should* be marked as an enhancement though.
I can see the argument that this is an enhancement, but it's a bug to me. Showing the paperclip for a vCard is misleading -- particularly if you use a vCard and are looking in your Sent folder. See also bug 257116. This bug is common to TB and MailNews, but I'll leave it as a TB bug for now.
Severity: normal → minor
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Linux → All
Hardware: PC → All
i fixed this once a long time ago and got bombarded with complaints. I doubt we'll fix this issue again....
I remembered in correctly. As long as you have view attachments inline turned on we don't show vcards as external attachments.
That is not the case. I have selected 'View attachments inline' and I still show v-cards as an external attachment denoted by the paperclip. I beg of you, please take clippy away.
Maybe have it an additional option "View v-Cards inline"?
This bug is about the paperclip displayed in the thread pane. In the *message* pane, the attachment panel is hidden (for a vCard) if Display Attachments Inline is on, AND View Message Body As is set to Original HTML (the latter point being the issue in bug 257116).
right, sorry hadn't eaten recently. what i meant was "have an option that says 'view paperclip in threadpane for v-cards'" make more sense?
just d/l'ed 0.9 and it looks like it is kind of fixed. The paperclip shows up when the message is unread. Once the message gets read the paperclip for the v-card goes away. If message is marked as unread the paperclip doesn't reappear.
comment #3 still applies. Big pain when trying to search the sent folder.
that is the intended behaviour...it's a compromise between guessing if a message has attachments from the headers only, and then fixing the hasAttachments flag when the user reads the message.
Would there be a way to allow users to disable the paperclip for certain attachments?
In TB 1.0 this seems to be fixed too. Maybe it could be closed. However, I could see another problem but I don't know if a solution could exist to satisfy everybody: when somebody forwards you or attach a vcf file to you (ie that vCard is not necessarily his), then that mail won't show paperclip too.
I dont know why do you say that it is fixed in TB 1.0, I am using the version of the 20.04.05, but it still has the problem.
It's not fixed according to Ron Alexandre's (the bug reporter) original request. But it's fixed in "compromise mode" as mentioned by others. That means, once you've read the message, vCard will no longer be displayed as attachment and the paperclip will disappear accordingly. If it still shows up for you, make sure that in your TB menu, View > Display attachments inline is checked.
Any objection to close this bug as FIXED?
I guess closing it make sense because it seems like the way I would prefer is not the "correct" way. Would it make sense to be able to filter what extensions the paperclip icon is shown for? Ron
it's as fixed as we can make it, and still show the paper clip after just downloading headers, so marking wfm
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Worked in TB2.0, but reappeared in TB3.0. Now paperclip icon is shown for all my send messages and incoming messages with VCF card attached. I understand that vCard is more than signature point of view mentioned here: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2155379 , but seeing which messages contains attachment is much more important for me.
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