546405 - "fetch headers only" link to download message opens "launch application" box instead of downloading

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect)

Description

[rmyster]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1)
Build Identifier: thunderbird-3.0.1

when "fetch headers only" option is enabled, resulting link to download message does not work.  Instead, the launch application box opens and asks for an application and only option is to open with an external application.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Fetch headers only option checked
2.download message, link to download message appears
3.click on link and instead of downloading message, box to choose application appears. 
Actual Results:  
window pops up asking for what application to use
unable to download message without turning off "fetch headers only"

Expected Results:  
link should download full message instead of asking for an application


The message is still on the server because if "fetch headers only" is turned off, the message will download.  Changing preferences-->attachments to use thunderbird-3.0.1 does not make any difference - still asks for application to use instead of downloading message. Trying to open with thunderbird tries to open another instance of thunderbird.

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

I suspect I know what caused this, can someone confirm it please?

Comment 2

[Nathan Tuggy (:tuggyne)]

I'm unable to reproduce with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Lightning/1.0b2pre Thunderbird/3.0.1 ID:20100111101938 - can you attach a protocol log, perhaps? (See https://wiki.mozilla.org/MailNews:Logging for details and instructions; you'll want to enable a POP3 log.)

I don't have a Linux system available to test this on right now, so if it's a platform-specific bug, we'll need another tester to confirm this.

Comment 3

[Ben Schmidt]

Do you use the ThunderBrowse extension, or another that does something fancy with URLs/links? I found that it was ThunderBrowse causing that window to pop up.

I had a workaround, which was this:

- Set up a message filter that says when status is starred, fetch message from POP server.

- When I have a message I need to download, I star it, and then choose 'Run filter on message' from the Tools menu.

However, this workaround doesn't seem to work in Thunderbird 6. When it goes to fetch the message, it checks a few different email accounts, none of which is the one on which the message resides, and the message doesn't download. Weird.

Comment 4

[xolaware.llc]

i can confirm that disabling Thunderbrowse causes the original behavior, and that disabling Thunderbrowse restores my ability to get my mail that had been downloaded via header only.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

rmyster,
Do you still see this when using a current version?