418994 - Changes to document attached to email are not saved.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 220808

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[John Kitz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.9 (20071031)

When I open a document that I receive as an attachment to an email and edit it with word processor, then close the word processor selecting to save the edited document in the process the attachment to the email is not updated with the changes.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open email
2. Double click attachment - opening document in word processor
3. Close word processor - opting to save the document in the process
4. Close the email - no pop-up to save changes, as is customary in competing products, is displayed
5. Open email
6. Open attachment
Actual Results:  
See details.

Expected Results:  
I expect the changes made to be saved in the attachment.

Comment 2

[John Kitz]

Magnus,

Thanks and my apologies or opening this ticket given that there are already so many duplicates. Looking forward to the update that includes the fix or TB3.

Respectfully, Jk.