484370 - rtfd format not supported

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(MailNews Core :: Attachments, enhancement)

Description

[Chascon]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008111323 Firefox/3.0.4 Flock/2.0.2
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.21 (20090302)

I need to be able to send as .rtfd files as attachments. I haven't been to do this with Thunderbird, but I get a file with content that looks like it is the product of a ls -al command.

I get something to this effect.
300: file:///Users/User/Documents/test.rtfd/
200: filename content-length last-modified file-type
201: Pasted%20Graphic%201.tiff 59550 Wed,%2022%20Oct%202008%2006:45:59%20GMT FILE 
201: Pasted%20Graphic%202.tiff 59550 Wed,%2022%20Oct%202008%2006:45:59%20GMT FILE 
201: Pasted%20Graphic%203.tiff 73590 Wed,%2022%20Oct%202008%2006:45:59%20GMT FILE 
201: Pasted%20Graphic.tiff 59550 Wed,%2022%20Oct%202008%2006:45:59%20GMT FILE 
201: TXT.rtf 20932 Sun,%2015%20Mar%202009%2001:19:08%20GMT FILE 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Make a .rtfd file.
2.Throw it into an email as an attachment.
3.Send it to yourself or another person.
4.Open the received attachment on the target end
5.See that you file does not correspond to the file opened.
Actual Results:  
It's received as one file, which does not contain the original document.

Rather the received document contains something to this effect.

300: file:///Users/User/Documents/test.rtfd/
200: filename content-length last-modified file-type
201: Pasted%20Graphic%201.tiff 59550 Wed,%2022%20Oct%202008%2006:45:59%20GMT FILE 
201: Pasted%20Graphic%202.tiff 59550 Wed,%2022%20Oct%202008%2006:45:59%20GMT FILE 
201: Pasted%20Graphic%203.tiff 73590 Wed,%2022%20Oct%202008%2006:45:59%20GMT FILE 
201: Pasted%20Graphic.tiff 59550 Wed,%2022%20Oct%202008%2006:45:59%20GMT FILE 
201: TXT.rtf 20932 Sun,%2015%20Mar%202009%2001:19:08%20GMT FILE 

Expected Results:  
I expect to receive a viewable .rtfd file. 

Yes I know an .rtfd file is just a .rtf file with a dir, perhaps a few other files, and image/s. I'm thinking Thunderbird does not see it as one file, but just grabs one, perhaps an internally generated file, and sends that.

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

can you attach such document to the bug so we can test ?

Comment 2

[Chascon]

Seems I can't add an attachment with Flock, or select it with Safari, gee.

I can't even even make it accessible on my server as a .rtfd file. It complains "The requested URL ... was not found on this server".

The .rtfd file (called fixRecordingHOWTO.rtfd) I tried is really a dir containing a file called TXT.rtf with no images.

I can connect to the Txt.rtf as,

http://domain .... fixRecordingHOWTO.rtfd/TXT.rtf

though.

I don't know if any of that helps, but you'll have to make your own .rtfd files with which you play. I suggest trying with and without images.

Comment 3

[Chascon]

I'm using 3.1.7 now and I still can't send a .rtfd document. I get a popup saying, "Send error message Sending of message failed. Unable to open the file /Users/USER/Documents/documentName.rtfd."

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

nomis, thoughts?

Comment 5

[Nomis101]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #4)
> nomis, thoughts?

I've tried this with a current version of TB. And I was not able to attach a rtfd file to a message. Because a rtfd file is like a folder with a text file and the pictures (or any other media) inside, I only can attach the files inside this "rtfd folder". A workaround would be to zip the rtfd file, than you can attach it with TB. If you send a rtfd file (or any folder) with Apple Mail, than it will automatically get ziped before sending. TB doesn't do this. Therefore the only solution here would be to do the same as Apple Mail does and zip such files before sending.