Pasting images into mail editor does not work

[charlag]

1. Right click some image in the web and copy image (the image itself)
2. Open mail editor and try to paste the image
3. Nothing happens

Test Notes

• [x] check that pasting works in chrome, firefox, safari and in ios (if possible, not sure if we can even copy image data there)
• [x] test all editing/formatting functions of the mail editor
• [x] check that autolinking still works
• [x] also test external images
• [x] check that the autoresponder editor and custom signature editor work as expected

we should keep an eye on https://github.com/tutao/tutanota/issues/4960 and see if it still occurs with the new squire

[ganthern]

did this work before? what's the expected behaviour? I guess attaching it as an inline image?

[charlag]

Depends on how OS gives us to us inline image might be an option. It is just very confusing from the user perspective. I don't think it worked before but I doubt it's fully intentional either and is at least usability bug.

[ganthern]

is at least usability bug.

definitely, if it's possible at all we should look into it

[SethFalco]

I think this may be related to the following issue:

• https://github.com/fastmail/Squire/issues/425

[Rubber-Duckie]

Still does not work. This works in every other email service I use. This needs top priority. Basic JavaScript skills required.

Firefox 113.0.1 (64-bit) + windows 10

Attempt to paste an image from clipboard. It shows the image in the email. But on send, the image is lost.

All it does is result in bazaar placeholders but no image is embedded. Funny, even git hub manages this just fine.

Example below;

[bravedave]

What do you use for sending the email ? (E.g PHPMailer)

[ganthern]

@Rubber-Duckie works fine for me on the desktop client and firefox, tested linux and windows 10 with internal and external mail. please check your setup, and cut the passive aggression. The current version of the client should be 3.112.12 on the web and 3.112.11 on desktop.

@bravedave how is this relevant to the issue?

[bravedave]

I picked up on the comment It shows the image in the email. But on send, the image is lost.

Images, I believe, need to be converted to cid attachments - so that's a server side process, I use PHPMailer and have to do a save to disk, attach and cid replace (I think bit rough, working from memory there)

[Rubber-Duckie]

Note that this is an error when using the web editor in the browser. This is not associated with a thick client application executing on a local machine. The inability to paste images into the email and retain them on send is a bug with the online web client (in the browser)