283161 - when inserting multiple inline images all appear to be the same as the last one

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Richard Smith]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Maxthon; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: version 1.0 (20041206)

When attaching multiple inline images to the same email message, the compose 
window displays a correctly formatted email. On sending however, the copy the 
recipient receives and the copy in the sent box are malformed. Each embedded 
image is replaced with the data from the very last embedded image originally 
attached. I maintain two dozen copies of Thunderbird and can only reproduce 
this problem on one system.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compose a new email
2. Add 2 embedded images using, Insert / Image
3. Send

Actual Results:  
The compose windows looks good but the copy sent is mangled to have the last 
image embedded take over all the others

Expected Results:  
Faithfully encoded each file properly

Comment 1

[finadene21]

I have a similar problem.

When I compose an email and "insert" a graphic image into the text of the email
the compose window is ok. Once the email is sent no image appears in the email.

I have 2 email accounts set up seperately (no under Local Folders). This happens
in bth accounts.

This first happened in Netscape 7.1. I used 7.1 for years then all of a sudden
the "insert image" command stopped working as I described above. I upgraded to
Thunderbird version 1.0.6 (20050716)this week and the problem migrated over with
my Netscape 7.1 profile. I then created a new profile in Thuderbird, set up my 2
email accounts and the same thing happened.

I have been a Netscape user since it first started and never had a problem with
the insert image command until Netscape 7.1. It worked fine in 7.1 for years and
then suddenly stopped working.

  

Comment 2

[Richard Smith]

I am seeing this behaviour on one of my Thunderbird (1.0.2) too.

The last image is present in the sig file. When another embedded image is sent, though the filenames in the message source differ, the encoded attachment is identical.

Comment 3

[Köles Mihály]

Hi

The same thing happens with my thunderbird version too. I have found this thing when used TB 1.0.6, so I have uninstalled it and installed version 1.0.7, but the problem didn't disappear. :(

I have only checked the sent emails' source and found that there are 2 image parts with the same content, so it seems, that TB fails to create the email correctly, the last image will be everywhere.

I have firstly seen this problem, when I tried to forward an email with inline images and at the forward email composition I have inserted my signature with an image in it. The recipients get the email with this image in it everywhere.
Then I tried to create emails with 2 inline images, the same thing happens.

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1. Compose a new email
> 2. Add 2 embedded images using, Insert / Image
> 3. Send

These steps are actually a little vague.  When you  Insert | Image  there are a lot of potential steps that could be taken at this point.  See bug 333838 -- in that case, the multiple images that were inserted all actually had the same filename; the image was overwritten on disk between Inserts.  Does that situation apply to this bug?

Comment 5

[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 6

[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.