415045 - The import of Outlook mails does not import embedded attachments.

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Migration, defect)

Description

[Nicolas Lascombes]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; fr; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.12pre (20080129)

The import of Outlook mails does not import embedded attachment of messages.

If we look in source code we can see that this kind of attachment are not imported :

http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/mailnews/import/outlook/src/MapiMessage.cpp#703
[...]
else if (aMethod == ATTACH_EMBEDDED_MSG) {
 MAPI_TRACE1( "\t\t** Attachment #%d by Embedded Message??\r\n", idx);
}
[...]

This msdn article explain different type of attachment :
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms526427(EXCHG.10).aspx

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.create a mail in Outlook 2000/2002/2003 with an emmbedded attachment (like a forwarded mail).
2.launch thunderbird
3.go to tools/import/ choose mail / choose Outlook
Actual Results:  
The message is imported but the attachment is lost.

Comment 1

[ovidiu]

can it be related to bug 309931

Comment 2

[Nicolas Lascombes]

Attachment: Import embedded attachment

Patch for MOZILLA_1_8_BRANCH. Import embedded attachments as messages recursively.

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Nicolas, thanks for the patch! However, what is needed is a patch against HEAD. Unfortunately that may be a little work (due to bug 33451 and other code modernization efforts). 

When you have an updated patch, please ask review by setting the review? and superreview? flags on the patch, filling in the e-mail of a suitable reviewer and superreviewer after the flag.

See
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Getting_your_patch_in_the_tree
http://www.mozilla.org/owners.html#mail-and-news-backend

Comment 4

[Mike Kaganski]

The proposed patch for Bug 207156 fixes this.