622677 - Mac SM/TB does not properly download mail file attachments that begin with period when double-clicked

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Attachments, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101123 SeaMonkey/2.0.11
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101123 SeaMonkey/2.0.11

In SM Mail, if there is a file attachment that starts with a period (e.g. .forward) then SM does not maintain the filename when it is saved if you double click the attachment to try and view it.  Instead it changes the name to not start with a period.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.mail yourself a message with an attachment named .pw.gpg
2.open the message in SM
3.click the attachment icon within the message to view the attachments
4. double click the attachment named .pw.gpg
5. when asked to open with or save the file choose save
6. the save as dialog should show .pw.gpg as the filename to save as.  go ahead and click ok
7. In the warning dialog about hidden files starting with the period go ahead and tell it to use the period

Actual Results:  
8. you will find that SM saves the file without the leading period (e.g. pw.gpg).

Expected Results:  
SM saves the file as .pw.gpg

this only seems to happen if you double-click the attachment.  If you instead "right-click" the attachment and choose Save As it properly saves the file with the leading period.

Comment 1

[Phoenix]

Is this still reproducible with latest build?

Comment 2

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Yes, running SM 2.4.1 on 10.6.8 this still happens for me.

Comment 3

[Phoenix]

Can you try to reproduce this with latest nightly build from http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/nightly/latest-comm-central-trunk/ ? Before try, backup your profile folder, just to be sure that nothing goes wrong. If problem still there, can you also check latest Thunderbird nightly from http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/latest-comm-central/ to help to understand, is this problem Seamonkey specific, or comes from shared code

Comment 4

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I've tried the same with both of those nightly builds and I get the same behavior.

Comment 5

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This is now happening for me in SM 2.7.1 i686 linux (and Mac still).

Comment 6

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Still a problem on Mac OS X 10.9.4 with Seamonkey 2.29

Comment 7

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Still a problem on Mac OS X 10.9.5 with SM 2.30

Comment 8

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Still a problem with Seamonkey 2.33.1