98538 - Can't send mail with attached files from a Windows share

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 55591

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Damian Yerrick]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010801
BuildID:    2001080110

Mozilla will not let me send a mail message with an attached file
that resides on a Windows SMB share.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Fill out the To:, Subject:, and body of a new mail message.
2. Attach a file located on a network share (such as
\\Pinocchio\dedodedo\art\precious.jpg).
3. Click Send.

Actual Results:  Alert box "Sending of message failed" appears twice.

Expected Results:  The message is sent.

Workaround:
Every time I got the error, I was able to send the message normally
by first copying the file to a local drive.

Comment 1

[Alfonso Martinez]

The problem is the handling of UNC paths as noted in bug 55591. 


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 55591 ***

Comment 2

[Sheela Ravindran]

verified as dup