So... after this long sequence of random thoughts, I finally arrived at the cause, which had (as ever) been staring me in the face since the outset:
The ext3 partition that Thunderbird is running from is capable of supporting a colon in the file name. But the FAT32 partition (where I am trying to save the files) doesn't allow a colon in the name. I believe the Windows version of Thunderbird automatically converts the colon to an underscore when the file system didn't support the character, and this presumably needs to happen here too. The bug none the less remains. Thunderbird should not just crash when presented with a bad user input. -- Crash on email save as, with attachment error https://launchpad.net/bugs/90410 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
