784356 - Images as inline attachments randomly turn to broken icons while window is open

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[bhendel]

Attachment: thunderbird.JPG

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1
Build ID: 20120713134347

Steps to reproduce:

I clicked "Forward" on a message that had about 8 inline images (none being more than 150K JPGs).


Actual results:

I've seen this happen twice.  Once while simply scrolling the email to read it before sending, and once while I was typing at the top of this new email. All of a sudden, about half of the images (which looked properly inlined in the forward) turn into broken image icons (I've attached a screenshot).

When I go to close the message window to try reforwarding, I get a dialog:

"Earlybird is currently in the process of sending a message. Would you like to wait until the message has been sent beofre quitting or quit now?"

My guess is it was trying to save to a draft when it ran into trouble.

This is reproducible for me.

Version 16.0a2


Expected results:

The images should have remained inline

Comment 1

[bhendel]

This even happens when close the problem email and open it again from a saved draft before the problem occurs. 5 or so mins later all inline images turn into broken image icons.

Comment 2

[bhendel]

Also, when these attachments break, and I go to send the email anyway, it sits at "Attaching" indefinitely. Cancelling, and deleting the broken image icons and resending works.

Comment 3

[fredrik chabot]

Image URL changes from a http(s):// to a invalid imap:// url on autosave

Comment 4

[mortgat]

Seems to be linked to bug #766495