279010 - attaching files with a '# ' symbol in the file name causes the file name to be truncated.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 243504

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Bill Ung]

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 you attach any file with a # symbol in the name, the filename is trucated.
i.e. filename=abcde#fghi.txt  becomes filename=abcde

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. click on write
2. either drag a file into the email or click on attach file and attach a file
with a filename with the # symbol in it.

Actual Results:  
the filename will be shown trucated in both the attachment box and in the source.
when you send the email the recipient will also recieve the file with a
truncated name.

Expected Results:  
not truncate the file name

Comment 1

[Scott MacGregor]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 243504 ***