I experienced the same problem dragging jpgs to message I was composing. The resultant attachment is characterized as something.txt, which confuses many mail readers. It may also be incorrectly encoded. I am running Thunderbird 24.5.0 on Ubuntu 12.4 on a Dell Vostro (32-bit Intel) machine.
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