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Can no longer download RSS feed attachments

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For many years I've been getting my various podcasts by subscribing to the RSS feeds with Thunderbird. The podcast then appears as an attachment to a RSS item, which I can right-click and download.

Until a few weeks ago, possibly after I updated TB to 115.12.2 64bit:

RSS feed items no longer visibly have attachments. If they have a download link, I can right-clicking on it and Save As, but nothing happens and nothing is saved. If I left-click on it a player gadget opens and starts playing. I then have to right click on that and Save Audio.

Examle podcasts that are giving me trouble: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/0185cea5-9e3b-4b82-a887-26f91f92765f https://feeds.twit.tv/sn.xml http://risky.biz/rss.xml

Is there a config option I can set to restore the previous behaviour? I can't go on using TB for my podcsts as it is - it's too much of a pain.

For many years I've been getting my various podcasts by subscribing to the RSS feeds with Thunderbird. The podcast then appears as an attachment to a RSS item, which I can right-click and download. Until a few weeks ago, possibly after I updated TB to 115.12.2 64bit: RSS feed items no longer visibly have attachments. If they have a download link, I can right-clicking on it and Save As, but nothing happens and nothing is saved. If I left-click on it a player gadget opens and starts playing. I then have to right click on that and Save Audio. Examle podcasts that are giving me trouble: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/0185cea5-9e3b-4b82-a887-26f91f92765f https://feeds.twit.tv/sn.xml http://risky.biz/rss.xml Is there a config option I can set to restore the previous behaviour? I can't go on using TB for my podcsts as it is - it's too much of a pain.

Isisombululo esikhethiwe

If not the complete solution, I've found a work-around - see attached image.

You get the attachment shown if, in the feed item display, you select More - Message Body As - Summary.

It still seems wrong that if you select Web Page or Default Format, right-click, Save Link As... does nothing. It shoud either be greyed out, or (preferably) actually do what is says on the tin.

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Those feeds indicate attachments, but viewing the source shows this at the end:

This MIME attachment is stored separately from the message.

So I don't think it's possible to download the file the usual way. But when I add the feed to Feedbro, a Firefox add-on, the feed descriptions contain a line e.g. View enclosure: R1_sn0982.mp3, which can be downloaded by right-clicking, Save Link As.

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It's not credible to suggest that all three of those feeds (and others I didn't mention) changed at the same time. All I'm asking is that TB revert to its old behaviour, in particular, that rt-click - Save Link As... should actually do something, rather than absolutely nothing at all!

Okulungisiwe ngu philip.leriche

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Isisombululo Esikhethiwe

If not the complete solution, I've found a work-around - see attached image.

You get the attachment shown if, in the feed item display, you select More - Message Body As - Summary.

It still seems wrong that if you select Web Page or Default Format, right-click, Save Link As... does nothing. It shoud either be greyed out, or (preferably) actually do what is says on the tin.

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