551302 - Forwarding a message after detaching an attachments generates an invalid attachment to new message

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 327302

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Matt Dudziak]

The problem is that after you detach an attachment, when you then forward the message, a 'stub' of the attachment is attached to the message. This causes the receiver to think there is an attachment but attachment is not actually there.

To reproduce:
- Send yourself an email with an attachment
- Detach attachment from received message
- Forward received message (to yourself or other account)
- Note received message indicates it has an attachment
- Note attachment is NOT the actual original attachment, rather just the MIME stub:

Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="Doonsbury.gif"
Content-Description: Doonsbury.gif
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Doonsbury.gif"; size=215295;
	creation-date="Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:07:55 GMT";
	modification-date="Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:07:55 GMT"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64


When you detach an attachment, subsequent forwarding of the message should not indicated the attachment...

Comment 1

[rsx11m]

See bug 327302, asking for a detached attachment to be reattached though.

Comment 2

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to comment #1)
> See bug 327302, asking for a detached attachment to be reattached though.

I would even say it's a dup.

Comment 3

[Jean-Marie COUPRIE]

Marking as a duplicate is not a true way to resolve a bug when nothing has been done for the original !