339790 - Dragging and dropping files into message means it cannot be sent

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[BoffinBrain]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060503 Firefox/1.5.0.3
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 1.5.0.2 (20060504)

When dragging files to the Message Compose window from the desktop, the files appear in the Attachments Pane and everything looks OK, but when I try to send the message, the Message Send progress never completes.   However, starting again and attaching the files using the Attach button on the toolbar is successful.

It seems to happen most of the time, whether you select single files or multiple files, and I've tried various file formats.  I managed to succeed once, but subsequestly failed every time.  Using the Attach button on the toolbar is always successful.  I've tried starting a new message and restarting Thunderbird to no avail.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compose a new e-mail
2. Drag some files from your Linux desktop to the message window
3. Try sending the message

Actual Results:  
The Sending Message window never closes.  The windows says "Attaching [file]..." and no progress is made - message hangs until you cancel it.

Expected Results:  
Attachments are sendable, as if you had gone through the Attach File button.

I was also able to drag my Wastebin to the attachments pane(!), and, unsurprisingly, that failed to send too.  I think that is a another bug to do with attaching folders.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Is this still a problem?  I just tried under Debian/Gnome, dragging from the File Browser, with TB 1.0.2, 1.5.0.7 (today's) and 2a1-0912 -- all WFM.

Comment 2

[BoffinBrain]

I submitted this a while back but I'm not sure whether it's still applicable so I'd just mark it as WFM or Invalid now.