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When opening an eml file saved on the desktop, only a white page appears.

Cristian Spiescu besvarat
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When opening an eml file saved on the desktop, only a white page appears.

I have the latest version of Thunderbird installed. The email opens without any problems in my inbox. When I export it as an eml and open it again in Thunderbird, a blank page appears. The size of the file seems to indicate that the content is still there. This error affects several Windows 10 computers on the customer network. I exclude the usual errors, such as assignment of the standard program and incompatibilities

I am grateful for any advice

When opening an eml file saved on the desktop, only a white page appears. I have the latest version of Thunderbird installed. The email opens without any problems in my inbox. When I export it as an eml and open it again in Thunderbird, a blank page appears. The size of the file seems to indicate that the content is still there. This error affects several Windows 10 computers on the customer network. I exclude the usual errors, such as assignment of the standard program and incompatibilities I am grateful for any advice

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Further testing revealed that the error only occurs in user profiles, not in the administrator profile. This is interesting because no security settings were changed.

I am having this issue too.

I save a message as `.eml` file on disk, and then, when opening it I don't see it's content. Only the title of the tab seems to be shown correctly. See attached picture.

I tried:

  • delete the profile
  • start a portable version of Thunderbird

No luck.

The file opens correctly in Outlook.

UPDATE: actually the file I was trying to open was on WSL, so practically a SMB share. This seems to be known cf:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1512680 https://www.reddit.com/r/Thunderbird/comments/1kpvdmu/cannot_open_messages_they_all_appear_blank/ https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1533214

I confirm that opening a file from the local disk works OK.

Actually the file was on WSL, which is seen as a SMB share. This seems to be a known issue.

Ref: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1533214#answer-1761830

I confirm that opening a file from disk works OK.

Ändrad av Cristian Spiescu