281078 - Forwarding a mail with a word attachment puts attachment in message body

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Paul Turner]

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 forwarding a mail with a word attachment the forwarded mail compose window
did not have the file attachement, but had the attachment in the body text (the
same as viewing the message source of the original email).  I can replicate this
everytime with this email.  Produced in version 0.9 and then upgraded to 1.0
with the same results.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Forward the selected mail with word attachment
2 [review].Message Composer has no file attachment, but inline like message source
3.

Actual Results:  
Compose window did not have the file attachement, but had the attachment in the
body text (the same as viewing the message source of the original email).  

Expected Results:  
File attachment should remain as a file attachment when forwarded.

I can supply the original message as a saved eml file if required.

Comment 1

[Paul Turner]

Attachment: .eml fail that replicates the problem.

This .eml fail is the saved original message that caused the problem when
forwarded.

Comment 2

[[e-mail]]

Attachment: Test email with word attachment recieved at destination, attachment is not accessible.

I tested creating an email in Thunderbird (1.0.2, OS X 10.3.9) and emailing it
to another account of mine. This attachment is the recieved message. 

The attachement is not accessible in this email, though it appears in the
message source with what look to be appropriate boundaries.

Comment 3

[[e-mail]]

Attachment: Test email with word attachment placed in "sent items", attachment text is inline.

I tested creating an email in Thunderbird (1.0.2, OS X 10.3.9) and emailing it
to another account of mine. This attachment is the version of the email placed
in my "sent items" folder. 

The attachement appears as text in the email. Note that neither a boundary
string, "--_NextPart_1_qmZrHLajoetbkwlTZTViemHPfyb", nor a Content-Type
declaration exist before the attachment data.

Similar tests with PNG image attachements work fine.

Comment 4

[Steven Neil Groginsky]

Sorry to bury this but it seems related.  Tried to forward an email successfully
forwarded from non-Thunderbird client that I received.  Thunderbird 1.0.2.0,
WinXP SP2 Home.

Original forwarded text .eml file was already an attachment, as was a .jpg file.
 See added note: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=239909

All I got in the new document I tried to create using "forward" was the text
that the forwarder wrote in their message.

I have "show attachments inl-line" enabled.

Work-around: save attachments and attach them to a document created using "Write."

Steve

Comment 5

[ventre.louis]

I too have been sending MSWord Docs and the recipient has a problem reading 
them because the Thunderbird apparently retains the path to the document from 
my computer. When the recipient tries to open the document, he gets an error 
that it can't find the file at the path location that was on my computer 
(which of course is not available on the recipient's computer). If the 
recipient clicks on the ok button several times, the document finally opens at 
the recipient's computer. 

This is a troublesome error. Are there any solutions to this?

Comment 6

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

Reporter, does the issue still occur with the latest supported 2.0.0.x / Shredder trunk nightlies?

(1.5.0.x is now end-of-life and the latest supported Thunderbird version 2 is 2.0.0.16)

Comment 7

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

RESO INCO per lack of response to the last question. If you feel this change was made in error, please respond to this bug with your reasons why.