350024 - Impossible to open an attachment of a forwarded message moved into a local folder when "View Attachment Inline" is disabledWith Thunderbird 1.5.0.6 (20060719) on Windows XP / Linux Mandriva 2006 / MacOs X, we cannot open an attachment of a forwarded me...

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 203570

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[roger.merat]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060414
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060414

With Thunderbird 1.5.0.6 (20060719) on Windows XP / Linux Mandriva 2006 / MacOs X, we cannot open an attachment of a forwarded message moved into a local folder when "View Attachment Inline" is disabled 


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
0. Launch Thunderbird, configured with IMAP
1. Send to yourself a message with an excel attachment named "test.xls"
2. Read that message and forward it as attachment
3 [review]. Read the forwarded message
4. Copy (or move) it to a local foldar
5. Disable "View > Display Attachment Inline"
6. Read the forwarded message in the local folder
7. Double click the envelope icon to open the forwarded message in a new window
8. Try to open or save the excel attachment

Actual Results:  
- nothing happens when trying to open
- when trying to "Save as" on Windows, get en error: Unable to save the attachment. Please check your file name and try again later

Expected Results:  
Should open the attatched file

The problem does NOT occur when the message is on the server
It does NOT occur either when "View Attachment Inline" is enabled

May be related to bug 340393

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

The dupe may not be obvious, but the patch that has been checked in for that bug does indeed fix this problem; however, 1.5 will not be released with the patch, you have to wait for TB 2.0 or use a nightly (test) build.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 203570 ***

Comment 2

[roger.merat]

The original summary for this bug was longer than 255 characters, and so it was truncated when Bugzilla was upgraded. The original summary was:

Impossible to open an attachment of a forwarded message moved into a local folder when "View Attachment Inline" is disabledWith Thunderbird 1.5.0.6 (20060719) on Windows XP / Linux Mandriva 2006 / MacOs X, we cannot open an attachment of a forwarded message moved into a local folder when "View Attachment Inline" is disabled