316602 - When saving message as .eml file, should save full HTML content as "complete web page" with embedded mime parts, or at least allow to do so.

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, enhancement)

Description

[David A. Cobb]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051110 Firefox/1.6a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051110 Firefox/1.6a1

When saving richly formatted HTML mail, with images and stuff, only the original content is saved -- if the originator ceases serving the images, the "saved" email is rendered un-useable.  

When I compose HTML mail, with images and stuff, the images go right along with the mail.  They need to because I cannot conveniently serve them. 

This "bug" requests (an option to) convert the content by fetching the images and stuff and encoding them into the MIME container of the message. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Pick an HTML message, do "Message=>Move or Message=>Copy [or Message=>SaveAs].
2. Disconnect from the network so you cannot fetch additional content;
3. Open the saved message

Actual Results:  
All the external links appear broken.

Expected Results:  
The act of saving the message should have fetched the content and saved it.

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Thunderbird version of Suite bug 166944?

Comment 2

[Ray Booysen]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 166944 ***

Comment 3

[Rod Whiteley]

Note that this bug is a request to save the message as an .eml file, with images and other resources stored in the .eml as MIME parts, so that you can open the complete message in a mail client.

This is not the same as bug 166944.

Comment 4

[chrizilla]

This is not the same as bug 166944 (see comment #3). Please reopen !