260892 - Email with attached message creates unending series of attachments

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 203570

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[David Hollman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: version 0.8 (20040913)

Have a message with another message attached.

When I double click the attached message it opens up fine, but has another copy
of itself as an attachment. Open that attachment, same thing, apparently forever.

I'll upload an exported .eml file of a message which exhibits this behavior.
However since there are some issues opening .eml properly (see bug#253216), I
used the following procedure to make sure I could duplicate the problem from a
.eml file:

0. Close Thunderbird (just a precaution)
1. Copy the test.eml file to the Thunderbird mailbox directory (i.e. the folder
icjvnzdp.slt\Mail\Local Folders)
2. Edit the .eml with a text editor
3. Add a new first line "From abcdef" so TB thinks its MBOX format
4. Run TB and visit the new folder called "test.eml" and open the single message


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
To create a new message which does this:
1. Compose a new message to yourself
2. Drag and drop any existing message to the new message as an attachment
3 [review]. Mail it and open when received
4. Open the attachment
5. Goto 4.

Comment 1

[David Hollman]

Attachment: Sample message with an attached message that shows behavior

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 203570 ***