261620 - cut and paste from an email the contains images does not take the images, sort of

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 224733

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[deleteaccount]

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

I often get email containing inline photos, and used to on AOL be able to
quickly cut and paste it into email I sent to other people.

In thunderbird if I try that (cntl c, cntl v) the result in the destination
composition window just has empty boxes where the photos should be.  If I save
the email with file save as, and then open it with tbird, I get the empty boxes,
but if I open it with outlook I can see the photos.

Trying to paste into say notebook or word with the stuff I presumably copied
also does not display images.

I tried cut and past again on the message when it was opened in outlook, but
that won't successfully paste into a tbird composition window either.

The only work around I've found is for each photo do a right click save image
as, then in the composition window do an insert image, but this is not
reasonable if someone has sent 12 images, etc.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.see above
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Actual Results:  
no images

Expected Results:  
see images

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #0)
> In thunderbird if I try that (cntl c, cntl v) the result in the destination
> composition window just has empty boxes where the photos should be.  If I save
> the email with file save as, and then open it with tbird, I get the empty
> boxes, but if I open it with outlook I can see the photos.

I don't understand that last sentence -- what, exactly, are you saving, and what 
are you opening in Outlook?

Does the message you're copying from contain the actual images, or does it only 
have URLs to them?

Comment 2

[deleteaccount]

I'm saving the email I'm trying to copy the body of, and I'm opening that saved
.eml file with outlook.  I just emailed you the message body of such a message.
 It looks to me, as an ignorant newbie, like the jpg is in the body.

Comment 3

[deleteaccount]

I think this may be related to 262211.  Not that it's the same bug, but it's a
cousin.

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Ah -- you've encountered *this* bug...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 224733 ***