Much the same as my result, I haven't got Google set up as a webmail
account in TB (I use IMAP for what it's worth). My guess is that this is
due to the way the webmail extensions work. Possibly over-simplified,
but in essence, the extension copies text from the web page (it would
have to be a page showing all the header information) then pastes it
into a blank mail and attempts to re-create the original POP mail to
forward on to Thunderbird. The source material that the extension has to
work on isn't the original mail as received by Google (or Hotmail, or
Yahoo...), but a version of it that has already been processed for
display on a web page.
Looking at some mails on Google and Hotmail sites, how do the extensions
preserve Header information when downloading mails to TB? I can't see
anyway on the web sites to display full headers, yet the Hotmail
extension downloads mails with headers intact. Is there some call that
the extension makes to the web site enabling it to access the source
code of emails? If the extension can access the original source code,
then my previous thoughts about how the extensions work may be
completely wrong.
alanrf wrote:
I too just ran a simple test of (what I believe to be) this concern to
a GMail account.
I sent a message from a simple POP/SMTP account ... ie the message was
*not* sent through the Webmail add-ons.
The message was of two lines of text and the second (and final) line
consisted of a string of 7 period (".") characters.
The message was sent out as multipart/alternative format (that means
as both text and html ... to be displayed according to the wish of the
receiver).
The message was received in Thunderbird on the same account in 2
ways. The account is received in regular POP format from GMail
directly and also received from the account by the GMail add-on.
In the message received through the standard POP connection both the
multipart/alternative versions of the message contained 7 period
characters in the final line.
In the message received through the GMail add-on connection both the
multipart/alternative versions of the message contained 6 period
characters in the final line.
On Jan 7, 12:20 am, Chris Clifton <[email protected]> wrote:
Just tried that with my own account, 7 .s sent, 7 displayed. I still
suspect that the problem may be due to the fact that the extension
"reads" the email on the website, converts it back to a POP format email
and finally acts as as POP server to send the message to TB. Plenty of
scope in that process for unintentional alteration of some trivial
nature, but enough to cause a digital signature to fail.
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