Closed Bug 273691 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Thunderbird inserts ^M in UNIX text files sent as attachment

Categories

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows 2000
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 161806

People

(Reporter: rguiller, Assigned: mscott)

Details

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

When sending UNIX text files (lines ending with \n) as attachment, Thunderbird
rewrites end of lines (now lines end with \r\n).
As a result, the recipent cannot uses those files (mostly scripts) on UNIX
servers without filtering all those ^M.

Outlook handles those files correctly.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Attach an UNIX text file to a mail
2. Check the text file the recipient received
3. 

Actual Results:  
The text files contains ^M.

Expected Results:  
I cannot understand why Thunderbird modifies attachment files.
All attachment files, including text files, should be considered as binary files
and not modified.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 161806 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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