294401 - attachments mangled

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[bolívar iñiguez]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/412 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/412
Build Identifier: version 1.0.2 (20050317)

attachments received from various other clients and platforms are mishandled and appear as generic "Part 
x.x.x" plain text attachments that upon download open only in text applications as hex text . changing the 
file name to the proper extension does not change the behavior .

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
upon receiving email with attachments
1. right click "part x.x.x" attachment at bottom of email window
2. save attachment 
3 [review]. double-click file to open

Actual Results:  
hex text document

Expected Results:  
pdf or pages attachment

Comment 1

[Paul]

Using Thunderbird 1.0.2 on Mac OS X 10.4.2, attachments going to other platforms
often appear as text embedded in mail message as ASCII text, and can not be
reclaimed as attachment by cut-and-paste methods.  

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. send mail with attachment (e.g.: .pdf, or .doc, or .xls)
2. mail is received typically on a PC, but sometimes on a Mac (not Thunderbird
on other end), as text embedded in mail message with no attachment

Actual Results:  
ASCII text appended to end of mail message with no attachment

Expected Results:  
attached file

Comment 2

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

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

(1.5.0.x is now end-of-life and the latest supported 2.0.0.x is 2.0.0.16)

Comment 3

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

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