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[Marinus-4 <275471@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Five (5!) years later, in Thunderbird version 5.0, it is still having
this most annoying bug. Mail with attachments takes forever to open,
then, when you click on the attachment to open it, apparently the
download starts afresh. Thunderbird has always done this, on all 4
computers in our house, for ALL IMAP accounts.

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Title:
  mozilla attachments are dowloaded multiple times

Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News:
  Invalid
Status in “thunderbird” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: thunderbird

  scenario.  open thunderbird and a message (new or old, doesnt matter)
  with a big attachment, lets say a .jpg that is 2Mb.  and for the sake
  of argument lets also say it is the first new message of your day.  So
  TBird automatically focuses on the first message, and you can watch
  the progress bar as it loads the message....

  some time later, the load is done.  hey, the image has a funny
  resolution in this view, so i double-click on the message and pop up a
  message window.  AND THEN THE MESSAGE WINDOW DOWNLOADS THE oh-so-
  fargin-lovely 2Mb AGAIN.

  no, this is not all.  No, TBird can be made to DL that sucker in all
  sorts of odd ways.

  It is very annoying and seems so unnecessary.  Are mail messages ever
  actually volatile?  And even if they were, for what fraction of hte
  people would they be like that?

  this is probably not a "bug" per se; but my bet is a lot of people
  would like to download that 2Mb just once.


  b.t.w., in this scenario I have an IMAP-SSL connection to my server.

  ubuntu 8.04 hardy

  thunderbird:
    Installed: 2.0.0.16+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
    Candidate: 2.0.0.17+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
    Version table:
       2.0.0.17+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 0
          500 http://mirror.pacific.net.au hardy-security/main Packages
   *** 2.0.0.16+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 0
          500 http://mirror.pacific.net.au hardy-updates/main Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       2.0.0.12+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 0
          500 http://mirror.pacific.net.au hardy/main Packages

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sun Sep 28 21:21:28 2008
  Dependencies:
   
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  Package: mozilla-thunderbird None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/mozilla-thunderbird.list]
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: thunderbird
  Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

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