299922 - Attachment files with semicolon in filename are truncated and loose their extension

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 243504

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Flo Dambacher]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

If you attach a file to a message containing a semicolon, e.g. "Company;
2005.pdf" the file name is cut of after "Company". 
For the sender the file type (in this case PDF) is still visible and therefore
he may not notice the problem (perhaps because the window for the attachments is
so small that he only sees "Comp".
But the reciever will just get a file called "company" with no extension or mime
type and no idea what to do.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create filename containing semicolon
2. create new message
3. attach the previously created file to the mail
4. see that the filename ist cut off after the semicolon
5. send it to an email adress and check there the inbox
6. notice that the attached file ist messed up
Actual Results:  
the filename was cut off after the semicolon, rendering the name in less
informational and without fileextension so that reciever won't know first how to
open the file.

Expected Results:  
Insert the file as attachment with full filename and no cutoff or suggest a
filenamerename.

Comment 1

[Flo Dambacher]

tested on Mozilla Thunderbird Version 1.0.2 (20050317) using windows 2000
service pack 4

Comment 2

[Elmar Ludwig]

Dup of bug 243504, which is not yet fixed on the 1.0 branch.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 243504 ***