User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5a (20040105) Recieve message with attachment, paperclip does not show. Once message is marked as read the paperclip shows. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Recieve an email with an attachment. Actual Results: No paperclip icon next to message in message list. Expected Results: Paperclip icon should be next to message in message list.

by design. for imap we don't know it has attachments till we fetch the body

Could we have Thunderbird correct this when the mailbox in question is POP?

*** Bug 230446 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Would like to see this behaviour changed 2

Isn't this a duplicate of bug #199979?

i've helped this a little bit by setting the attachment flag when the junk controls download the message body.

>>by design. for imap we don't know it has attachments till we fetch the body<< Hmmm... shouldn't you/can't you know? I'm a fairly new user and found today that I could not scan my "Sent" folder to identify messages with attachments. I sometimes do this to delete larger messages because I do file copies of the folders between a machine at work and my server at home so I want to keep the file sizes down. It doesn't seem like setting the paper clip icon should be so hard to do. Thanks for the good work.

(In reply to comment #1) > by design. for imap we don't know it has attachments till we fetch the body Not that I hold MS Outlook up as a standard bearer, but we have users here using Outlook with IMAP. And Outlook (at least 2000 and 2002 versions) do have this ability. Outlook only fetches the headers but is able to ascertain whether there is an attachment. So I believe this should be possible for Thunderbird.

Confirm that, also on Windows XP. I think this bug deserves a higher severity status because it is vital in the process of detecting possible viruses.

Very annoying bug... Fix it, please.

Picking up on comment #5 from André, this does appear to be a duplicate of Bug 199979. Note that other similar bug reports, Bug 223572, Bug 228884 and Bug 229429, have all been marked as duplicates of Bug 199979.

Well, as for me, I'm going to put my two pennyworth in here, rather than in 199979, because that is flagged 'minor' which I disagree with quite hard. It's also curious that 199979 is 'new' and this one 'unconfirmed'. I think the paperclip icon should appear before messages are opened. I want to know what to avoid. I've just done a dummy run and found that it cannot be made to appear even if the attachment is visible in the preview pane - the email has to be opened. (0.7.1 on XP) As for problems with Imap, I've read the discussion in http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=630684 and it seems to me that if there is any ambiguity in doing it from the headers, all that is needed is a different coloured paperclip, or a question mark, or something in that column. I think the comparison with OE/Outlook is valid - if we can't be better than them, why bother? Eudora, Lotus notes, Pegasus all manage to flag attachments.

I've just noticed. The behaviour is similar in the 'sent' folder - you don't get a paperclip until you've displayed - or previewed - the message.

The presence of attachments, according to my version of RFC 1521, is indicated in the header and has nothing to do with junk control. A paper clip can be displayed as soon as the message arrives in the inbox, in exactly the same way the sender or the subject are displayed. For sent messages this is even less understandable. If pop and imap require different behavior, then implement different behavior, but there is no reason in the growing world of spam to not provide this feature. The fact that it was not built-in by design does not preclude changing the design. There is no point in discussing which bug number is relevant, just add the feature, please.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 199979 ***