674918 - HTML embedded objects wont show up (e.g. as attachment) in text view mode

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 602718

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect)

Description

[Alexander Stohr]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0
Build ID: 20110615151330

Steps to reproduce:

received an e-mail that was HTML encoded and had some embedded objects (e.g. an image), opened that mail; my reader was (seemingly) initially set to show up received mails in sort of an ascii view.


Actual results:

the mail opened in ASCII view mode
the embedded images were totally hidden, only the significantly increased mail size indicated some attachment or alikes
not even a word in the exposed text was there hinting for e.g. image003.png or something


Expected results:

the HTML embedded objects should be honored as it were attachments,
i suppose the HTML part or the mime/uuencode/base64 encoded parts from HTML needs to be parsed even if the view should not expose it.

it might be helpful if even the HTML part of the message appears as attachment as well so that the receiver sees/knows there is a HTML version that might be an alternate and improved view of the (by default) offered textual view. (free software is about choices and control - if you know you can choose, if not you probably lack some of the control due to that yet hidden nature.)

my /work-around/ was:
case a) enabling HTML (you probably wont like beeing force doing this all the time) and save the image objects with a right click menu entry
case b) view message source, extract base64 encoded blocks with image headers using copy and paste, save to a text file and then run base64 decoder (shell application) on the extracted data