270769 - If no Content-Type is specified, a default should be assumed

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 155537

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Radu]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

IMHO, if the Content-Type field is not specified or is blank, a certain default
Content-Type should be assumed, such as text/plain or, if the Content-Type is
unknown and different from blank, a simple "attachement" should be shown, like
in the JPEG at the specified URL.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Send a message with the Linux command echo blah | mail email@address
2. Take a look at the message in the Inbox

Actual Results:  
I saw an empty message with a misc "attachement".

Expected Results:  
Show the contents of the message as if the Content-Type would be text/plain.

Comment 1

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

DUP of bug 155537.
Search bugzilla for Product=Thunderbird and mail&news before open bug, please,
because almost all components execpt UI is shared between Thunderbird and
Mozilla Mail&News.
See also bug 57342 for invalid/unkown Content-Type case.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 155537 ***