Scott Putterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> If you are seeing this in recent builds, then please file a bug.
>
I should have added that this only applies to binary attachments. I've
also spotted that the garbage characters are the first bytes of the
attachement.
I'll CVS and build the latest source and test it. If I still see the
problem I'll file a bug.
> Scott
>
> Parish wrote:
>
> >I saw this in 0.9.4 (possibly 0.9.2 as well) and it still happens in
> >0.9.5.
> >
> >New Message, add a Subject, Address, and an Attachment, but leave the
> >body empty. Select Send Later. Go to Unsent Messages, click the
> >message - the attachment is still there. Select Edit As New and the
> >attachment is missing in the new message in the Composition Window and
> >there are 4 or 5 garbage characters in the body. The attachment is
> >really missing, not simply the name missing from the Attachments pane,
> >I've checked by viewing the message source.
> >
> >However, if you put something in the body, even a single character,
> >when composing the original message this problem doesn't occur.
> >
> >I can consistently reproduce this behaviour on 2 different machines
> >(both running W2K-SP2).
> >
> >I tried adding this (tip found in this NG):
> >
> >user_pref("mail.content_disposition_type", 1);
> >
> >to prefs.js to stop the attachment being in-line thinking that it
> >might make a difference, but it doesn't work - the attachment is still
> >inline and the above problem still occurs.
> >
> >Has anyone else seen this? Should I report it as a bug?
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Parish.
> >
