280878 - Eudora import doesn't handle embedded content

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Migration, defect)

Description

[Lorrin Nelson]

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 importing messages from Eudora attachments are handled correctly but
embedded content is lost. The distinction between the two may be a quirk of
Eudora. I infer that Eudora's definition of the two is:

* Embedded content is a MIME part which is referred to by an HTML tag is the
body of the message for in-line display.

* An attachment is any MIME part that is not the body of the message or embedded
content.

Eudora extracts embedded images to an "Embedded" folder and munges the message
body to look like e.g. this:
<img
src="file://C:\DOCUME~1\ROBINN~1\APPLIC~1\Qualcomm\Eudora\Embedded\88f7a7e.jpg"
width=294 height=384 alt="88f7a7e.jpg">

Presumably the orginal content was a URL that referred to a MIME part rather
than a file.

Attachments are also automatically extracted (to the "attach" directory) and new
HTML content is generated and inserted into the message:
<a
href="file://c:\docume~1\robinn~1\applic~1\qualcomm\eudora\attach\2004Election-DailyMirrorCover-HowCanYanksBSoDumb.pdf"
file="file://c:\docume~1\robinn~1\applic~1\qualcomm\eudora\attach\2004Election-DailyMirrorCover-HowCanYanksBSoDumb.pdf"
EUDORA=ATTACHMENT>
<img
src="file://c:\docume~1\robinn~1\applic~1\qualcomm\eudora\icons\240a789.jpg"
alt="c:\docume~1\robinn~1\applic~1\qualcomm\eudora\attach\2004Election-DailyMirrorCover-HowCanYanksBSoDumb.pdf">
2004Election-DailyMirrorCover-HowCanYanksBSoDumb.pdf </a>

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Import Eudora mailboxes containing messages with embedded links

Actual Results:  
Embedded images in Thunderbird render as broken links. In the source view they
look like this: <img src="cid:.0" width=294 height=384 alt="88f7a7e.jpg">

The following text appears at the bottom of the message:
Embedded Content: 88f7a7e.jpg: 00000001,00002e31,00000000,00000000 

Expected Results:  
The embedded image should be displayed properly. Presumably this would be done
by taking the extracted file on disk, making it into a MIME part (as is already
done for attachments) and fixing the link to point to the MIME part instead of
the file system.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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