evolution can't save as attachment

Still an issue? can you reproduce that with another user account? Can you tell us a few steps in order to reproduce the bug? thanks.

yes, I login with another user account and create a fresh evolution configure, and the bug reproduce.

my operation steps:
1.click on a mail with attachments
2.in preview window, find the attachment,and save as the attachment
in evolution left-dow side,evolution says"error while saving as attachment"

I will show you the snapshot

this is the saved mail attachment,just a 3030 bytes size file head

should I give more information?

may you forward it upstream since you're facing the issue? for forwarding instructions please have a look to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME ; leaving this as incomplete until that,thanks for your help.

Just as an aside, I have the same issue, whenever I try to view or save an attachment, I get the "Error while Saving attachment." with a subtext of "Could not write data: Success"

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=541286

Not sure how to add the bug watch :-\

Whoops. Thinko there... it is now added as an "also affects project".

great, thanks you.

To my understanding this has already been resolved on (unknown) update on trunk. I am currently running SVN trunk, and I do not see the issue anymore. It was present until near 2.23.5.

It was indeed introduced somewhere between 2.22.1 and 2.23.4.

So... for those running 2.23.4... please wait a bit, upstream is releasing the new milestone (2.23.5) Real Soon Now.

Upstream confirmed this was fixed on 2.23.4-2.23.5, and will be available on next upstream refresh. I also adjusted the upstream link, and I am marking this fix committed.

In case someone does not want to wait (it annoyed me for sure), I took the upstream patch and converted it to a debian patch to be added to evolution-data-server-2.23.4/debian/patches. This fixes the problem if libcamel1.2-12 is updated.

This bug was fixed in the package evolution-data-server - 2.23.4-0ubuntu2

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evolution-data-server (2.23.4-0ubuntu2) intrepid; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/90_svn_correctly_return_written_bytes.patch:
    - upstream change to fix mail attachments (lp: #242299)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:46:44 +0200

I cannot confirm that this bug has been fixed. Testing on Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha with all updates, this problem remains, the only difference being that currently it gives no error message at all. Current version of evolution-data-server is 2.23.92-0ubuntu1.

Maybe someone should tell the GNOME people that things till do not work. In this launchpad thread, "Fix released" status cannot be changed.

the bug described there has been fixed if you still have a similar issue open a new bug

I am still having this problem and have been unable to work the last two days because of it... 2.22.3.0 and up to 2.23... I see above it is recommended to go to 2.23.4; however I am afraid to do that because it requires the removal of multiple other programs that I use (I am running Hardy). Is there another fix?

thank you very much

as sebastien said please open a new bug rather.