280586 - JPG attaches as TMP when calling Thunderbird from external graphics program.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 273849

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Edward Casati]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier:  Thunderbird version 1.0 (20041206)

When using a Graphics Program (in my case BreezeBrowser) that gives a "mail to:"
functionality when selecting an image, Thunderbird opens up correctly with the
file as an attachment, but the file has an extension of ".tmp" instead of ".jpg"
like it should. This causes problems when people detach the attached file.
As explained by the BreezeBrowser help desk:
"It sounds as though Thunderbird doesn't fully support MAPI. BreezeBrowser asks
Windows for a temporary file for the JPEG which returns a filename with a .tmp
extension and passes this to the email client giving it the same name as the
original JPEG. The email client should be able to handle the fact that the
attachment file and the name it should use are different."
The problem has not been seen in any other mail client.
Note. The file is displayed properly inline with a web browser, so the fact that
it is a JPG is being recognized. It is only when a file is detached that it is
saved with the ".tmp" extension, instead of the original filename extension.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Using a graphics program that allows sending of image directly from within
the program, slect "Send as email to:"
2. Thunderbird opens up a message compose window, butthe file that is attached,
that originally had an extension of ".jpg" now has an extension of ".tmp"
3. Recipient is unable to detach and open file, because the computer does not
know what to do with a ".tmp" file. 

Actual Results:  
A message with an attachment ending in ".tmp" was created.

Expected Results:  
A message with an attachment ending in ".jpg" should have been created.

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

I guess it is a duplicate of bug 273849, which is now fixed. To test, please try
a current branch or trunk build of TB.

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/latest-0.9/

Comment 2

[OstGote!]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 273849 ***