263266 - Text attachments when sent get reformated with exclamation marks & carraige returns

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Louis Persohn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 0.8 (20040913)

When sending a text file (.txt) as an attachment specically with data such as:

203.25.66.51|203.25.66.51|541331|440363|675347305|51291265|0|0|0|0|675347305|512
91265|675347305|51291265|675277175|51172690|0|35247|69230|82428|

Thunderbird seems to add carraige returns at exclamation marks eg:

203.25.66.31|203.25.66.31|0|246|0|30787|0|0|0|0|0|30787|0|30787|0|11962|0|17053|
0|1532| 
203.25.66.28|203.25.66.28|385|724|146510|411668|0|0|0|0|146510|411668|1465!
 10|411668|142304|393433|0|13959|906|976| 203.25.66.29|203.25.66.29|196
|471|159817|149426|0|0|0|0|159817|149426|159817|149426|157577|128372|0|18576|194
0|2178| 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Send a Text File attachment with Thunderbird
Actual Results:  
Received the text attachment with added exclamation marks (!) and carraige 
returns.

Expected Results:  
Returned the attachment the way it was (No Modifications)

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

There is a maximum line length for SMTP.  Are you sure the line-breaks are from 
TB and not from the SMTP server?  How does the file look in the Sent folder?

It would be nice if TB could detect the very long lines and re-encode the file 
in base-64 or quoted-printable, with short-enough transmitted lines.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Louis Persohn, do you have any response to the questions in comment 1?
xref bug 246227.

Comment 3

[Louis Persohn]

(In reply to comment #1)
> There is a maximum line length for SMTP.  Are you sure the line-breaks are from 
> TB and not from the SMTP server?  How does the file look in the Sent folder?
> 
> It would be nice if TB could detect the very long lines and re-encode the file 
> in base-64 or quoted-printable, with short-enough transmitted lines.

Hi Mike,

The Sent folder looks fine and I've tried two SMTP servers, That would be an
excellent feature, I've sent the same message from other mail clients
(Evolution, Outlook express) and didn't have the same problem.

I'll try and send it to one of my exchange servers this weekend and see if it is
the server.

Thanks

-Louis

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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