314916 - If signature file is missing, no warning appears

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[info]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051025 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051025 Firefox/1.5

When you configure an account to use a certain signature file and later delete this file. Thunderburd does not seem to notice the file is missing and simply sends the mail without signature.
A warning that the signature file is missing would be better OR storing the file in the user-profile.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create signature file (sig.txt)
2. attach sig.txt in Account Settings
3. delete sig.txt
4. create new message

Actual Results:  
no warning appears

Expected Results:  
warning appears reporting missing sig file

Comment 1

[u63580]

But you can see it's not there - surely the user should notice this?

Comment 2

[info]

I was thinking it was adding the sig after pushing the send-button. Until I sent an email to myself and discovered it didn't

Comment 3

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

Reporter, does the issue still occur in the latest supported 2.0.0.x / Shredder 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 4

[info]

Yes it does occur in 2.0.0.16

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

and trunk.
I have not strong opinion since I mostly don't use sigs.
But one could argue this is user error. 
And it's worth noting this bug has no votes, no dupes, almost no cc: - so is it really worth the code to inform the user?

Comment 6

[Bryan Clark (DevTools PM) [:clarkbw]]

Since our signatures are only accepted in file format and we don't have an internal storage for signatures I can't see ignoring this.

But I couldn't imagine adding a dialog as I'm working hard to remove as many as I can. Maybe an info bar on the compose dialog?  Not sure about the fix here and as Wayne points out it's likely that it can remain a low priority.