339900 - When forwarding an email with an attachment the attachment becomes part of the email

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 234449

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Rudolph]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3
Build Identifier: version 1.5.0.2 (20060308)

We regularly receive emails with PDF and Word (DOC) attachments, some of them when forwarded (default inline) append the attachment and code to the original email and do not actually include a separate file attached. With large attached files this takes forever to result in this problem, as you can appreciate there is a lot of code to display. Either more people are attaching files in a strange way or your recent versions have made this worse as it is now becoming more and more common. Other mail clients have not exhibited this issue.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Find an email with an affected attachment (some are OK)
2. Forward email
3. Viola!

Actual Results:  
The attachment does not exist in the forwarded email except as code inline. EG

Please find attached our Remittance Advice 16604 dated 01/06/06.
begin 600 Exide_Remit_16604.pdf
M)5!$1BTQ+C,-"B5*971&;W)M(%!$1B!3=7!P;W)T(%9E<G-I;VX@,BXS+C`P
M,`T*)45N8V]D:6YG3V)J96-T/3`-"B7[_/W^"C$@,"!O8FH*/#P*+U1Y<&4@
M+T-A=&%L;V<*+U!A9V5S(#,@,"!2"CX^"F5N9&]B:@H-"C0@,"!O8FH*6R`R
M.#$@,C@Q(#,U,R`U-34@-34U(#@X-B`V-S`@,3DU(#,S,B`S,S(@,S@Y(#4X
M-"`R.#$@,S,R(#(X,2`R.#$@-34U(#4U-2`U-34@-34U(#4U-2`U-34@-34U
M(#4U-2`U-34@-34U(#(X,2`R.#$@-3@T(#4X-"`U.#0@-34U(#$P,38@-C<P



Expected Results:  
provided me with a compose window with only the original text inline and the attachment to forward as a file attached

I have the software set to forward inline. Forwarding as an attachment does not exhibit these problems, however this is not the desired method for us.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Whoever's sending you those messages is using software that attaches the files using "UUEncode" which is a pretty old standard.  Yes, Mozilla is handling that incorrectly; but having them send the message using MIME instead would be preferred.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 234449 ***