Thunderbird crashes when saving an email as a file with a colon in the filename.

Bug #234303 reported by Ezra Morris
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
thunderbird (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: thunderbird

Thunderbird crashes when I do the following:
- Open an email with attachments.
- File > Save As > File
- Leave the default filename in place (which was "Fw: sunday 25 May.eml")
- Select type "Text files"
- Click Save.
It then gives an error message which says:
   Unable to save the attachment. Please check your filename and try again later.
On clicking OK, thunderbird crashes with "Segmentation fault" to the command line.

ezra@ezra-laptop:~$ apt-cache policy thunderbird
thunderbird:
  Installed: 2.0.0.14+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
  Candidate: 2.0.0.14+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 2.0.0.14+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 0
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main Packages
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.0.0.12+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages

ezra@ezra-laptop:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04
Release: 8.04

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri May 23 12:57:45 2008
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: mozilla-thunderbird None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/mozilla-thunderbird.list]
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: thunderbird
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686

Tags: apport-bug
Revision history for this message
JanBrinkmann (jbrinkmann) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Is this still an issue using the latest thunderbird package? If it is, please try to obtain a backtrace following the instructions at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and upload the backtrace (as an attachment) to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

Changed in thunderbird:
status: New → Incomplete
Revision history for this message
Ezra Morris (ezramorris) wrote :

I can confirm this is fixed in version 2.0.0.19+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1

Changed in thunderbird:
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
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