261311 - thunderbird won't send Word attachments

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 236239

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Rik Smits]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
Build Identifier: Thunderbird .7 and .8

When sending mail and attaching a Word document, the message body gets through 
to the recipient, but not the attachment. Other formats ok, tried one with a 
jpg, a pdf, an xls and a word. All attachments except Word get through.
I get an error message that copying to sent folder failed - which is true, the 
messages don't appear in sent.
This came up suddenly after 2 months of faultless behavior of Tbird .7. 
Switching to .8 tonight did not help.
This problem has been reported at least 15 times in several (admittedly mostly 
confused) ways in the forum since the middle of august. So far there has been 
no reaction at all from mozilla, which I consider rather unconsiderate. This 
is a *very* serious problem.
Oh, to avoid confusion: IMAP has nothing to do with it, never used it. It is 
just Tbird and Word. 


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

is it every Word document, or only a particular Word document? Is your fcc
folder a local Sent folder or an imap folder? I have no problem sending word
documents with a .8 tbird build...

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Rik Smits, in addition to answering the questions in comment 1 -- what is the 
path and file name of the Word document you're trying to attach?

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

Rik, so your sent mail folder is a local folder, not an IMAP folder? Could you
send one of these messages to me, bienvenu @ nventure.com , so I can see what it
looks like, e.g., if you're using quoted printable, etc.

Comment 4

[David :Bienvenu]

dup of 236239, I'm pretty sure. I believe this association is stored in
mimetypes.rdf but I'm a bit fuzzy on the details.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 236239 ***