291483 - images refered to by cid: don't render

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Bas van der Veer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 1.0.2 (20050317)

To display images in html mail, it is possible (at leaast in Outlook(express)
and Lotus Notes) to attach the images and refer to them as <img
src='cid:yadayada.gif'>
This does not seem to work in Thunderbird.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
I'll attach an example .eml message. Open it in Thunderbird.
Actual Results:  
e-mail renders with white background and nothing in the section that's called map'

Expected Results:  
e-mail renders with parchmenty background and images and an actual map.

Comment 1

[Bas van der Veer]

Attachment: example email

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

The problem is not the cid: -- the problem is that every image in the message 
has been given:
  Content-Type: application/octet-stream
instead of
  Content-Type: image/gif
As far as Mozilla is concerned, those attachments are binaries of unknown type.

Yes, I know, "Outlook Express handles it just fine."  Mozilla doesn't, and for 
good reason.