Closed Bug 272329 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Sending certain file attachments end up as inline text rather than a file.

Categories

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
major

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 65794

People

(Reporter: epstein.mike, Assigned: mscott)

Details

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 When I send a text based file as an attachment (for example a .txt or .m file) the receipient does not receive the emailed file as an attachment but rather the text of the files appears as text inside the email. It's a little annoying since the receipient needes to cut and paste from the email into a file rather than simply saving the file. To get around this I can zip a text file and email the zip file, but this is NOT ideal. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
See workaround at bug 65794 comment 11. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 65794 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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