Tickets :: [#5945] multipart/alternative MIME handling

6.0.0-alpha12

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Summary	multipart/alternative MIME handling
Queue	IMP
Queue Version	HEAD
Type	Bug
State	Resolved
Priority	1. Low
Owners	slusarz (at) horde (dot) org
Requester	morgan (at) orst (dot) edu
Created	11/30/2007 (6400 days ago)
Due
Updated	12/17/2008 (6017 days ago)
Assigned	11/09/2008 (6055 days ago)
Resolved	12/17/2008 (6017 days ago)
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12/17/2008 06:39:58 AM	Michael Slusarz	Comment #11 Assigned to Michael Slusarz State ⇒ Resolved	Reply to this comment
This message views fine in IMP 5.

11/09/2008 04:25:37 PM	Chuck Hagenbuch	State ⇒ Assigned Version ⇒ HEAD

10/19/2008 09:26:18 PM	Michael Slusarz	Comment #10 State ⇒ Stalled	Reply to this comment
The MIME library is being rehauled for 4.0. Issues relating to MIME will be taken up after that code stabilizes.

10/14/2008 02:35:48 AM	Chuck Hagenbuch	State ⇒ Feedback

10/13/2008 11:12:15 PM	morgan (at) orst (dot) edu	Comment #9	Reply to this comment
[Show Quoted Text - 10 lines][Hide Quoted Text] I still cannot make this work in the latest imp 4.3 release. The message displays correctly, but the links to view or download the PDF attachment (which are displayed inline) are incorrect. Click on the view link opens a pop-up window which has the following URL: https://webmail4-test.onid.oregonstate.edu/imp/view.php?popup_view=1&actionID=view_attach&id=2.2&mimecache=197054aa93e86cd7a3217dd2fd35c8a6 and displays a blank page. If I add the parameters "&mailbox=INBOX&index=77054" to the URL, it works correctly, displaying the PDF file. Whoops. In order to make it display, I also need to fix the "id" parameter by changing it from "2.2" (there is no mime part 2.2) to "1.2.2" (the correct mime part id). So there are 2 problems with the URL, although I suspect they are related.

10/13/2008 11:09:28 PM	morgan (at) orst (dot) edu	Comment #8	Reply to this comment
All links work perfectly for me. It has to be your c-client choking on the mime structure of that message. The only issue I noticed was that if you enable html inline messages in imp's configuration, the html body part is not correctly displayed. But you can still retrieve it through one of the attachment links, and it works correctly with imp 4.2. I still cannot make this work in the latest imp 4.3 release. The message displays correctly, but the links to view or download the PDF attachment (which are displayed inline) are incorrect. Click on the view link opens a pop-up window which has the following URL: https://webmail4-test.onid.oregonstate.edu/imp/view.php?popup_view=1&actionID=view_attach&id=2.2&mimecache=197054aa93e86cd7a3217dd2fd35c8a6 and displays a blank page. If I add the parameters "&mailbox=INBOX&index=77054" to the URL, it works correctly, displaying the PDF file. Also, the "Download All Attachments (in .zip file)" link at the top of the message works correctly. I cannot figure out why the code is not including the mailbox name and message uid in the generated URL though.

12/03/2007 05:37:29 PM	Jan Schneider	Comment #7 State ⇒ Not A Bug	Reply to this comment
All links work perfectly for me. It has to be your c-client choking on the mime structure of that message. The only issue I noticed was that if you enable html inline messages in imp's configuration, the html body part is not correctly displayed. But you can still retrieve it through one of the attachment links, and it works correctly with imp 4.2.

12/01/2007 05:42:56 PM	morgan (at) orst (dot) edu	Comment #6	Reply to this comment
Okay, this time I exported the message from IMP itself into a MBOX file. You can grab it at: http://oregonstate.edu/~morgan/test.mbox

12/01/2007 10:42:12 AM	Jan Schneider	Comment #5	Reply to this comment
I couldn't open this message with IMP, Thunderbird, or Mail.app. Seems like it's broken.

12/01/2007 10:30:18 AM	Jan Schneider	Deleted Original Message

12/01/2007 12:15:01 AM	morgan (at) orst (dot) edu	Comment #4	Reply to this comment
Failed again, I guess. I put it online at http://oregonstate.edu/~morgan/77054.msg

12/01/2007 12:10:53 AM	morgan (at) orst (dot) edu	Comment #3 New Attachment: 77054.	Reply to this comment
Trying again... The attachment should be around 1.2MB.

11/30/2007 10:59:48 PM	Jan Schneider	Deleted Original Message

11/30/2007 10:59:42 PM	Jan Schneider	Comment #2 State ⇒ Feedback	Reply to this comment
The attched message was empty.

11/30/2007 09:29:24 PM	morgan (at) orst (dot) edu	Comment #1 Priority ⇒ 1. Low State ⇒ Unconfirmed New Attachment: 77054. Queue ⇒ IMP Summary ⇒ multipart/alternative MIME handling Type ⇒ Bug	Reply to this comment
I think I've found a bug in IMP v4.1.5 MIME handling. I have a message with the following (odd!) MIME structure (as reported by Pine): Parts/Attachments: 1.1 Shown 5 lines Text 1.2.1 Shown ~17 lines Text 1.2.2 OK 939 KB Application 1.2.3 Shown 0 lines Text 2 2.5 KB Application ---------------------------------------- In IMP, it shows up as: Headers: Show All Headers Multipart/alternative Alternative parts for this section: Help unnamed [text/plain] 0.24 KB Download unnamed [text/html] 1.14 KB Download J Biol Chem 1983 Venter-1.pdf [application/pdf] 917 KB Download HTML Click HERE to view HTML content in a separate window. Clicking on any of the links shows a completely blank HTML window, and there is no text at all show inline.