372435 - Embedded URI images ALWAYS attached and included in-line

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 132257

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Larry Jackson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2
Build Identifier: All Builds

I am a travel agent and I need to forward e-ticket confirmations to clients.

These e-ticket confirmations contain embedded image links like:
<img src="http://www.nwa.com/travel/emailtsr/images/ckin_24hr.gif" border="0">

I use "Edit as New" on these e-ticket HTML email and
TB always tries to attach and convert these URI linked images 
into in-line attachments.

I tried adding the following to user.js in my Profile:
user_pref("mail.content_disposition_type", 1);
but it still always tries to attach and sent these links in-line.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Edit as New a html email with URI references to images.
2. Click Send email, TB will say attaching abc.gif 
3. Received email will NOT contain links
   OR TB will get stuck and never time out.
Actual Results:  
</table>
      <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="584">
        <tbody>
          <tr>
            <td>
            <a href="http://www.nwa.com/features/advisory.html">Review
TSA Security Requirements</a><br>
            <img src="cid:[e-mail]"
 height="1" vspace="0" width="1">
            <img src="cid:[e-mail]"
 border="0" height="1" vspace="0" width="584"></td>
          </tr>
        </tbody>
</table>


Expected Results:  
<TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 WIDTH=584 BORDER=0>
<TR>
<TD>
<A href="http://www.nwa.com/features/advisory.html">Review TSA Security Requirements</A><br>
<IMG SRC="http://www.nwa.com/images/clear.gif" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=1 VSPACE=0>
<IMG SRC="http://www.nwa.com/images/red_hr.gif" WIDTH=584 HEIGHT="1" VSPACE="0" BORDER="0">
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE> 


In TB versions < 1.5
 images are attached and sent in-line, 
 but are not displayed properly when received.
 The images are displayed as boxes with red dots in them,
 but the email source lists them as in-line attachments.

In TB versions >= 1.5
 TB attempts to attach images when you hit send,
 but they are never attached or sent.
 TB just sits there saying "Attaching abc.gif",
 but the file is never attached
 and it never times out.
 (No work around !!!)
 I've been staying with TB 1.0.7

Comment 1

[Larry Jackson]

Attachment: Test case HTML email with embedded URL links to images

Comment 2

[Larry Jackson]

Attachment: Test case HTML email with embedded URL links to images

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

With TB 2.0 -- coming soon! -- you can edit the individual images to clear a checkbox that reads "Attach this image to the message".  Edit As New will maintain that flag, so you only need to set it up once.  The fix for that is the bug I'm duping this to.


> In TB versions >= 1.5
>  TB attempts to attach images when you hit send,
>  but they are never attached or sent.
>  TB just sits there saying "Attaching abc.gif",
>  but the file is never attached
>  and it never times out.

This is bug 319818, and should be fixed in time for 2.0.

Comment 4

[Larry Jackson]

I just tried TB 2.0 beta today and it still attaches the messages 
and also gets caught in a loop trying to attach the URL linked images.

I've tried fixes similar to what you describe,
but we are talking about mail messages with LOTS of linked URL images
and I can't always get the editor to let me get to the properties of the link because its within a table.

What is really needed is a global option that lets you set the default attachment method (like attach or don't attach all) and then let you individually override them like you say with a checkbox.

This option DOESN'T have to be in the program,
loading from user.js would be fine.
P.S. I tried adding user_pref("mail.content_disposition_type", 1);
to user.js, but it didn't work.