310898 - pdf-attachments in emails sent by Mac-TB won't save

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 231759

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Dennis B]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: 1.0.7 20050923

A Message with at least 1 .pdf-attachment sent by TB for Mac will fail to save
all attachments in TB for win.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Send an e-mail with a pdf-file (and perhaps some other files) attached in TB
for Mac.
2. Receive e-mail with TB for win
3. Try to save the attachment(s) with TB for Win to disk.

Actual Results:  
Nothing happens for all attachments. Just the Dialog asking for the save-path is
shown. Then no error occours. No file is written to disk.

Expected Results:  
it should save the attachments as .pdf-binaries in the chosen directory.

- occured in TB with all extensions disabled.
- manually extracting and decoding the base64-mime-parts from the msg-source
produced the desired files.
- all is fine when the files were sent from a windows-tb-client
- workaround for the sender: zip the .pdf-file before attaching. other files are
sent correctly
- perhaps a problem with MIME-types generated by the mac-tb-client?

Comment 1

[Dennis B]

Attachment: source of a mail which causes the bug

the message was saved directly from the "view message source" dialog. only
domains where replaced by ***.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #0)
> - perhaps a problem with MIME-types generated by the mac-tb-client?

That seems feasible; see bug 231759 comment 2.

I can confirm that the attachment does not save, using TB 1.5/1.6; at that other 
bug, a similar attachment will save but doesn't open in the expected Acrobat 
when double-clicked.