397052 - attachment name changed to truncated directory name when pound sign is used in file path

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 243504

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Anne Alvarado]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716

When attaching a file the attachment's name changes to a truncated directory name if that directory name has a pound sign (#) in it. The contents of the file are fine - it can be recieved, renamed, and opened; but the name is changed and the extension lost

Example: C:\\aa aaa\b bbbbb\cc#c\dd ddd dd\example.txt would not attach as "example.txt" but instead as cc (the part of the directory name containing the # sign, that comes before the #)

It doesn't always happen if the file path is shorter (C:\\cc#c\example.txt seems to work fine)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create long file path (at least 80 characters seems to work)
2. Include a # sign in the name of one of the later directories
3. Try to attach a file from the directory at the end of the path
Actual Results:  
file name changes to first part of the directory name that has the # sign in it r

Expected Results:  
attached the file using the original file name

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

This is fixed in current versions, please upgrade to SeaMonkey (the successor of Mozilla 1.7).

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