Strange thunderbird behaviour on a reaceived email: not all attachments are readable.

[Joachim Backes]

I'm running F25 with thunderbird-52.1.0-1.fc25.x86_64. some days ago I 
received an email with 11 pdf's attached. Trying to open some of the 
pdf's with acroread or evince fails because of a message like: "attached 
file has been damaged."

But if I foward or redirect this message with all attachments, then this 
forwarded or redirected email is fully readable together with all 
attachments.

Anybody has an explanation for such a behaviour?

Kind regards

Joachim Backes


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[Ed Greshko]

On 05/15/17 16:08, Joachim Backes wrote:
>  I'm running F25 with thunderbird-52.1.0-1.fc25.x86_64. some days
> ago I
>  received an email with 11 pdf's attached. Trying to open some of the
>  pdf's with acroread or evince fails because of a message like:
>  "attached file has been damaged."
>
>  But if I foward or redirect this message with all attachments, then
>  this forwarded or redirected email is fully readable together with all
>  attachments.
>
>  Anybody has an explanation for such a behaviour?  

Have not had any problems with attachments.  Granted, the most I've
gotten in a single email these days has been 3.

When you tried to open them, did you do so directly?  Did you also try
saving them to disk first and then trying to open them?

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[Joachim Backes]

On 05/15/17 11:12, Ed Greshko wrote:
>  On 05/15/17 16:08, Joachim Backes wrote:
> > I'm running F25 with thunderbird-52.1.0-1.fc25.x86_64. some days ago I
> > received an email with 11 pdf's attached. Trying to open some of the
> > pdf's with acroread or evince fails because of a message like:
> > "attached file has been damaged."
> >
> > But if I foward or redirect this message with all attachments, then
> > this forwarded or redirected email is fully readable together with all
> > attachments.
> >
> > Anybody has an explanation for such a behaviour?
>  
>  
>  Have not had any problems with attachments.  Granted, the most I've
>  gotten in a single email these days has been 3.
>  
>  When you tried to open them, did you do so directly?  Did you also try
>  saving them to disk first and then trying to open them? 
Hi Ed,

it doesn't matter: same behaviour is first saving the attachment and 
then opening it, or to open it directly by thunderbird.

Kind regards
Joachim Backes



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https://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes/

[Ed Greshko]

On 05/15/17 17:27, Joachim Backes wrote:
>  it doesn't matter: same behaviour is first saving the attachment
> and
>  then opening it, or to open it directly by thunderbird.  

I see....

Was the message signed by any chance?   I have had issues, long enough
ago that I don't recall the details, when "inline PGP" was used instead
of "PGP/MIME".


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[Joachim Backes]

On 05/15/17 11:35, Ed Greshko wrote:
>  On 05/15/17 17:27, Joachim Backes wrote:
> > it doesn't matter: same behaviour is first saving the attachment and
> > then opening it, or to open it directly by thunderbird.
>  
>  
>  I see....
>  
>  Was the message signed by any chance?   I have had issues, long enough
>  ago that I don't recall the details, when "inline PGP" was used instead
>  of "PGP/MIME".
>  
>   
No, simply attached. And the message was not signed (see: after 
forwarding and/or redirecting, all is OK).

Kind regards

Joachim Backes

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https://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes/

[Ed Greshko]

On 05/15/17 18:18, Joachim Backes wrote:
>  No, simply attached. And the message was not signed (see: after
>  forwarding and/or redirecting, all is OK).  

Well, without seeing the raw message my guessing of the cause has come
to an end. 


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[Heinz Diehl]

On 15.05.2017, Ed Greshko wrote: 

>  Well, without seeing the raw message my guessing of the cause has
> come
>  to an end.  
Right-click on the mailbox, choose "Properties -> General information
-> Repair folder".

[Joachim Backes]

On 05/16/17 07:52, Heinz Diehl wrote:
>  On 15.05.2017, Ed Greshko wrote:
>  
> > Well, without seeing the raw message my guessing of the cause has come
> > to an end.
>  
>  Right-click on the mailbox, choose "Properties -> General information> ->
> Repair folder". 
Well,

I did it several times, but without any positive result. Obviously, the 
folder is not corrupt :-(

Kind regards

Joachim Backes

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