353086 - Attached source links do not behave correctly

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect)

Description

[Ian Neal]

Since the fix to bug 132257 landed you can now attached the source of links. The source now appears as an attachment with link in the message of the form:
<a href="cid:[e-mail]" moz-do-not-send="false">website link</a>
where the cid is the Content-ID
The problem is that clicking on the link does nothing and hovering over it shows about:blank in the status line.
It should behave the same way that attaching a file does which is clicking on the link opens the attachment and hovering over the link shows the path to the attachment (imap:something for example)

Comment 1

[Ian Neal]

*** Bug 353186 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Nick Sigismondi]

I still believe there is a problem with the insert link feature in the message
compose window but here are some interesting developments. 1. - I composed a
message to a friend in which I pasted a link to a web page but told them to
paste the link into their browser and did not use the insert link feature. When
I received his reply I noticed the link I pasted in was now underlined and in
blue and when I click on it it worked properly. 2. - With this in mind - I
composed 3 more messages which I then sent to myself - the first using the
insert link feature which I sent both as plain text & html; the second just
pasting in the link not using the insert link feature sending it as plain text
and the third just pasting in the link and sending it as html. The following
were the results: message one received as plain text worked OK - the one sent
as html did not; message two not using the insert link feature in plain text
worked & message three pasting the link and not using the insert link feature
sent as html worked OK. The problem seems to be with the coding on the insert
link feature and although I have now figured out a workaround this is something
you may want to continue to look at.

Comment 4

[Konstantin Berdichevsky]

Attachment: HTML sources for sending mail with and w/o link attached

I am attaching HTML sources of the results for 2 cases of inserted link sent first without attaching "the link's source", and the other with it.

Just to have a data point...