David Christensen wrote at 2009-10-09 14:26 -0500: > I am experiencing the problem with received messages that have > attachments. Testing just now with a draft message, attaching and > deleting an attachment seems to work. But, I am using the Compose > window; the issue occurs when I use the Icedove main window or the > reading window. > > > Here is the procedure for demonstrating the issue: > > 1. Start Icedove. > > 2. Get mail. > > 3. Select a folder containing a message with attachments in the left pane. > > 4. Select a message with attachments in the upper-right pane. Top of > message and attachments appear in lower-right pane. (I picked a message > with nine *.jpg attachments.) > > 5. Choose File -> Attachments -> Delete All. Click button "OK" in > Confirm dialog. > > 6. Progress bar at bottom of Icedove appears, completes quickly, and > disappears, cursor changes to busy cursor momentarily and changes back > to arrow, and Icedove refreshes, but the attachments are still present. > > 7. Repeat steps #4 through #6 -- results are the same. > > 8. Pick a different message with attachments. (I picked a message with > one *.jpg and one Deleted:*jpg attachment.) Right-click on an > attachment in the bottom portion of lower-right pane. Choose "Delete". > Click button "OK" in Confirm dialog. Progress bar flashes by and > Icedove refreshes, but attachment is still there. Repeat -- same > results. > > 9. Double-click on message with attachments in upper-right pane. Choose > File -> Attachments -> Delete All, and Confirm. Window updates and > attachments are still present. Repeat -- same results. > > 10. Right-click on an attachment in the reading pane and choose Delete. > Window updates and attachment is still present. Repeat -- same results. > > > I have started collecting messages with attachments I can't delete. Thus > far, I have four messages and they are all from the same person. I am > wondering if his mailer is encoding attachments in a way the Icedove > can't handle? All four contain these headers (boundary varies, as > expected): > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/7.0.14 YahooMailWebService/0.7.347.3 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="0-1180664548-1253938940=:48297" > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This looks like a good bug report. Use the 'reportbug' command (from the reportbug package) to report it. > Does Icedove have an error log file somewhere that I can look at? I see from 'icedove --h' that you could try both -safe-mode and -jsconsole.
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