273487 - cannot open attachments to emails (pdf, wav, mp3, doc, wpd, etc.) in outgoing mail

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[martha g dibblee]

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

In an outgoing email I like to check an attachment before I send it out. After 
attaching a file to a Thunderbird email I cannot open it to check its 
integrity.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Attach file to email
2. try to open attached file by double clicking on the attachment
3 [review]. Attachment will not open

Actual Results:  
Attachment would not open

Expected Results:  
Attachment should have opened

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Actual Results:  
> Attachment would not open

Is that it?  You get no response at all?

I set up a compose window with a .TXT, a .PDF and a .ZIP attachment.  When I 
double-click either of the first two, I get the "Opening ..." dialog, which 
gives me the option to open with either the default or some other application, 
or to save to disk.  With the ZIP file, I get the Enter Name of File to Save To 
dialog -- because my preference for ZIPs is to always save to disk.

Attachment types are defined in Tools | Options | Attachments.  Unfortunately, 
Thunderbird does not offer a simple means of entering a new type; see bug 244618 
and bug 261766.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

No response from reporter; =>WFM
Martha Dibblee, feel free to reopen if this is still a problem for you, but 
provide more information; in particular, respond to comment 1 in this bug.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Whoops -- really WFM this time.