299729 - Mozilla munges up "digest form" email saved as .txt but not saved as .eml

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 257828

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Henry Knoll]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511

I'm running Mozilla 1.78 on a 2.8 GHz machine with 512M RAM and
Windows XP Pro.

When I name an email file I'm saving, from the Mozilla default .eml,
to .txt, and even change the "Save as type" to text file, Mozilla at
times runs some of the text together. Here is an example of what
happens from a "digest forum" email I get to show what I'm talking
about.

Example:
===========================
Okay Woody, no fair holding out on us. Looks like we REALLY need a
SAAN coffee and breakfast so you can do a show and tell!

-- Tim, N9PUZ
-- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.
Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.7.7/20 - Release Date:
6/16/2005 ------------------------------ Message: 23 Date: Sat, 18 Jun
2005 01:07:54 +0000 From: Hank Kohl K8DD <[e-mail]> Subject: Re:
[QRP-L] Beverages To: KE5CTY Bob <[e-mail]> Cc: 'Ward
Silver' <[e-mail]>, 'qrp list' <[e-mail]>

**Notice the failure to break where the new message: 23 starts. It
should look like this.**

===============================
Okay Woody, no fair holding out on us. Looks like we REALLY need a
SAAN coffee and breakfast so you can do a show and tell!

-- Tim, N9PUZ
-- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.
Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.7.7/20 - Release Date:
6/16/2005
------------------------------
Message: 23
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 01:07:54 +0000
From: Hank Kohl K8DD <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: [QRP-L] Beverages To: KE5CTY Bob <[e-mail]>
Cc: 'Ward Silver' <[e-mail]>, 'qrp list'
<[e-mail]>

=======================================

I hope I'm making myself clear. Does anyone know why this is
happening? It happens most of the time with emails, but never in the
same place in the email. That is, it can happen in the beginning, the
middle or the end or any other place. It can happen and then skip a
number of lines and then do it again.

I haven't notice it happen when I save newsgroup files as .txt files.

I just downloaded a "digest" that had message 12, 13 and 25 messed
up. All of the other 25 in the digest were just fine.

Here is the header of that digest. Perhaps it will give someone a clue
as to what is happening. Note the first part of the header is messed
up, but since that is easy to fix, I do just that. So Mozilla is
screwing up both the header and some of the messages when I save the
"digest" as a .txt file.

==================

Header of Digest:

Subject:
QRP-L Digest, Vol 14, Issue 47
From:
[e-mail]
Date:
Tue, 21 Jun 2005 18:38:42 -0400 (EDT)
To:
[e-mail]

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I left some messages on the server and then downloaded them on my old
computer using Netscape 3.01. The digests came down perfectly. No
messages running together in the same file as when using Mozilla. I
read both files with the same text reader, so I can rule that out.
Mozilla apparently doesn't like something.

I did find something interesting. I looked at the downloaded "digest"
I've been talking about, on the screen after downloading it with
Mozilla, without saving it and it looked just fine. If I save it as a
.txt file it gets messed up.  If I save it as the default .eml file
and *then* change the .eml to .txt and read it,  it looks just fine.
Neither the header or any of the messages are screwed up.  There is
something about saving it as a .txt file directly from Mozilla. Is
this a bug and should it be reported to the developers?


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Download "digest form" email
2.save as .txt file
3.

Actual Results:  
Okay Woody, no fair holding out on us. Looks like we REALLY need a
SAAN coffee and breakfast so you can do a show and tell!

-- Tim, N9PUZ
-- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.
Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.7.7/20 - Release Date:
6/16/2005 ------------------------------ Message: 23 Date: Sat, 18 Jun
2005 01:07:54 +0000 From: Hank Kohl K8DD <[e-mail]> Subject: Re:
[QRP-L] Beverages To: KE5CTY Bob <[e-mail]> Cc: 'Ward
Silver' <[e-mail]>, 'qrp list' <[e-mail]>

**Notice the failure to break where the new message: 23 starts. It
should look like this.**


Expected Results:  
Okay Woody, no fair holding out on us. Looks like we REALLY need a
SAAN coffee and breakfast so you can do a show and tell!

-- Tim, N9PUZ
-- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.
Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.7.7/20 - Release Date:
6/16/2005
------------------------------
Message: 23
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 01:07:54 +0000
From: Hank Kohl K8DD <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: [QRP-L] Beverages To: KE5CTY Bob <[e-mail]>
Cc: 'Ward Silver' <[e-mail]>, 'qrp list'
<[e-mail]>


There is something about saving this type of email as a .txt file directly from
Mozilla.  Is there a setup box I have checked or unchecked that will fix the
problem?  Is this a bug in Mozilla?

Thanks

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Related to/duplicate of Core bug 257828?

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 257828 ***

Comment 3

[Henry Knoll]

I don't get any of this.  My question was:  Will Mozilla ever save text files as .txt files without munging them up?  If I save them as .eml files and then change the extension to .txt, the files are text files.  Why does Mozilla save text files as .eml files?  .eml files are Outlook Express files.

My digest files do the same as Hank Kohl's, so I save them as .eml files and then change the extension to .txt and everything is OK.  Why do I have to go through this extra step?

Your'e speaking to a Mozilla dummy, so please answer as such.

Henry

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Your'e speaking to a Mozilla dummy, so please answer as such.

OK.  First of all: this isn't the place to ask questions; there are newsgroups and forums for that.

Second: if someone marks your bug as a duplicate, don't reopen it unless you can demonstrate why it isn't -- which you don't seem to be able to do.  The bug was marked a duplicate because the symptom you're describing is basically the same as the symptom at that other bug.  The fact that there *is* another bug reporting the same thing should be taken as a "yes" answer to your question, "is this a bug?"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 257828 ***