339590 - When attaching a file (symbolic link) the name of the referenced file is used instead of symlink name

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 271480

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Frank Winkler]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.3

When I compose a new message and attach a file which is a symbolic link to another file, the name of the link reference is being used instead of the link's name. This is at least true for Solaris and MacOS


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. $ touch a
2. $ ln -s a b
3. compose a message and attach b

Actual Results:  
The attachment is named a.

Expected Results:  
It should be named b.

Comment 1

[Frank Winkler]

Furthermore, a RFE concerning this issue: it would be cool if one was able to change an attachemnt's name (or in other words to attach a file with a different name than it has on the file system) without being forced to create a copy.