387360 - Unable to 'save as' e-mail to documents folder -

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Jeffrey Samuels]

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: Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (20070604)

If I try to 'save as' an e-mail to a folder in my 'documents', an icon appears in the folder but I cannot open the e-mail, I see a dialog box that says "the file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action.  Create an association in the Folder Options control panel." I deleted the program and reloaded it but the problem persists.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Please see above
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Actual Results:  
always the same

Expected Results:  
saved the file to the folder in a form that I could open as a file in the documents folder

I was able to save an attachment as a single entity but not the e-mail as a whole or any e-mails without attachments

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Is Thunderbird set as default mail client? Try resetting it as default. 
Does File > Open Saved Message work?

Comment 2

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

I suppose if the question hasn't been answered 1.5 years later, it's safe to assume RESO INCO...