660605 - 0 byte email attached files are not saved

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect)

Description

[Marco Ciampa]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; it; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110422 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.17
Build Identifier: 7.0a1.en-US.linux-x86_64(last build), Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110424 Thunderbird/3.1.10, 3.1.10 Win32

Trying to save the attach files from some email files, it saves only those >0 bytes long. It does not create any empty attached file. No errors, no messages. With Thunderbird 3.1.10 Win32 but also Linux Ubuntu and latest build.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.load email
2.select all attach
3.save it all

Actual Results:  
some attach files are saved. Some (which has 0 byte length) not.

Expected Results:  
Using Outlook express I successfully saved all the files attached.

With Thunderbird 3.x is a serious bug since you cannot know that the unsaved attach files are the empty ones since there is no attach files dimension shown.

Comment 1

[Jim Porter (:squib)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> With Thunderbird 3.x is a serious bug since you cannot know that the unsaved
> attach files are the empty ones since there is no attach files dimension
> shown.

In 3.3 (or is it 5.0 now?), this is fixed. Attachments have their size shown. I'm not sure it's terribly useful to save 0-byte attachments, though I suppose there's no reason we couldn't do it either.

Comment 2

[Marco Ciampa]

>In 3.3 (or is it 5.0 now?), this is fixed. Attachments have their size shown.

This is _not_ fixed. What I was saying is simply that in 3.x is _worse_ than with the newer (experimental!) versions (that I do _not_ dare to use in production) since, without size indication, you have not way to understand the reason behind the attached files are not saved...
BTW I found it because in my office we use a automatic update system based on email that transmits always a fixed number of attach. When there are no data, the corresponding file is empty _but it have do be!_. Now the system is broken thanks to this bug. I'm not so happy to say that we _have_ to use Outlook Express because it is, in this concern, bug free. :-(

Comment 3

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

What are you sending that is 0 byte long ? What's your use case ?

Comment 5

[Marco Ciampa]

Tested with Thunderbird 6.0.2 (Linux Ubuntu Natty), the bug is still there... :-(

I've not attached an example since it is trivial. Just create a mail with some 0 bytes attach files. They are displayed correctly. If you try to save them, no error, no action.

Please change the status in CONFIRMED; from may to today it should be enough for a so easy to check bug report ... :-(

Comment 6

[Marco Ciampa]

The bug is still there with Thunderbird 10 under Windows & Linux ... what the ... I have to do since is 100% reproducible and easy to confirm?

PLEASE set this bug as confirmed!

Now more than 6 months that I posted this report and it will never be fixed if it will not be confirmed...

Comment 7

[Ian Hartas]

Jim -  empty files are often used as flags or place-holders so should be attachable as per any other file.

Marco - who marks this as confirmed ?  I can confirm that this is still a bug, but I guess you need more than this !

Comment 8

[Jim Porter (:squib)]

If it makes you feel any better, I can confirm this, but that doesn't mean it's going to get fixed any faster. I, for one, almost never make a distinction between confirmed and unconfirmed bugs.