338700 - Attachmen containing the text "From " at the beginning of a line becomes ">From "

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 194382

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Joakim]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3
Build Identifier: Linux 2.6.13-gentoo-r3; x86_64 AMD Athlon; Thunderbird 1.5.0.2; mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-1.5.0.2-r1

Thunderbird puts a greater than sign ">" (ascii 62) first on ony line
in attachments starting with the text "From " (there must be a space after the word From). Seems to be independent of attachment extension.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. echo "From " > file.orig
2. Send file.orig as attachment in mail
3. Recived mail, save attachment as file.mail
4. file.mail contains the following text: ">From "

Alternative, without sending
1. echo "From " > file.orig
2. Attach file.orig in mail, save the mail as Draft
3. Open Draft mail, save attachment as file.mail
4. file.mail contains the following text: ">From "


Actual Results:  
Attachment contains the text ">From "

Expected Results:  
Attachment contains the text "From "

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin] (away, back June 30)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 194382 ***