391242 - Unable to drag-and-drop received attachment to other application

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 253711

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Albrecht Dreß]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; de-DE; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20070718 Fedora/2.0.0.5-1.fc7 Firefox/2.0.0.5
Build Identifier: 2.0.0.6

If I try to drag'n'drop the attachment of a received message from an M$ Exchange IMAP account into an other application (e.g. XEmacs/Win oder editor), the receiving application cannot open the file.  An other application says that it is not able to open the file as its permissions are insufficient.

The dnd actually produces a file in the temp folder, and it *is* possible to open it by dnd from the Explorer in *all* aforementioned applications.

This looks as if the "drag received" signal is emitted to the target application *before* the attachment has completely been copied (i.e. closed and unlocked, if TB locks it) to tmp.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Receive a message via IMAP with an attachment
2 [review]. Dnd the attachment from TB onto the application - fails
3. look for the file name of the attachment in tmp and dnd it - works, even if the message is still opened in TB
Actual Results:  
see above

Expected Results:  
Dnd should work ;-)

- connection via IMAP to M$ Exchange which is ssllooww
- the attachment is rather large (140 kBytes)

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Duplicate of bug 253711, no?

Comment 2

[Albrecht Dreß]

Probably...  at least here seems 2b a race, too!