265022 - message body not displayed when attachments and signature present

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 246415

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Andre Winter]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803

see http://www.carto.net/andre.mw/work_test/mozilla_mail_attachment_error/ . it
happens with different mailing list deamons.

Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce
Steps to Reproduce:



Expected Results:  
a displayed mail message body.

http://www.carto.net/andre.mw/work_test/mozilla_mail_attachment_error/

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

From reporter's web page:
=====
occurs when there are:
attachments (no matter if inline or not)
a footer added by a mailing list deamon
all this get sent to an IMAP account
on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803

the message body is missing and not displayed in the main mail window, nor it is 
to be found in the attachment list. Webmail, Outlook and others handle this 
correctly. i have also mails that get displayed correctly with the above 
combination, but i didn't find the error cause.
=====

Message source at the web page shows:
  multipart/mixed
    text/plain  (message body)
    application/msword
    application/pdf
    application/msword
    application/msword
    application/msword
    text/plain  (mailing list footer)

The message renders as follows (per a screenshot at the webpage):
  This body part will be downloaded on demand
   ----- horizontal rule -----
  text of final text/plain


Reporter, I assume you're using IMAP mail?  This is very likely a dupe of
bug 246415.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

btw: Which build of Thunderbird are you using?

Comment 3

[Andre Winter]

(In reply to comment #2)
> btw: Which build of Thunderbird are you using?

i'm using the built-in mail programm of mozilla1.7.2, sorry don't know which
underlaying version it is for the mail program

Comment 4

[Andre Winter]

(In reply to comment #2)

yes, reading trough IMAP server.

i may add that this may also somehow related to the way the mail gets written
out by the originating server: as i said, there is an automicaly added
disclaimer (footer) as *plain text* whereas the mail body is *html-formated*.

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > btw: Which build of Thunderbird are you using?
> 
> i'm using the built-in mail programm of mozilla1.7.2, sorry don't know which
> underlaying version it is for the mail program

Um, you filed the bug under Thunderbird.  The mail program from the suite is 
listed as "MailNews" in the Product dropdown.

At any rate, this is a dupe.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 246415 ***