Just had this issue reported to be by an end user & have replicated myself,
From the Thirdlane Connect desktop app on Windows, if you drag & drop a HTML file into Thirdlane Connect it acts as a HTML parser and shows the HTML page, instead of sending the file as an attachment.
You then can't get out of this without killing the service.
See screenshots.
Submitted by NickJ on Sun, 06/25/2017
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Didn't seem to attach, I've uploaded the screenshots to Imgur:
http://imgur.com/a/d60Mf