[#5945] multipart/alternative MIME handling
Summary multipart/alternative MIME handling
Queue IMP
Queue Version HEAD
Type Bug
State Resolved
Priority 1. Low
Owners Michael Slusarz <slusarz (at) horde (dot) org>
Requester morgan (at) orst (dot) edu
Created 11/30/2007 (582 days ago)
Due
Updated 12/17/2008 (199 days ago)
Assigned 11/09/2008 (237 days ago)
Resolved 12/17/2008 (199 days ago)
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12/17/2008 Michael Slusarz Comment #11
Assigned to Michael Slusarz
State ⇒ Resolved		 Reply to this comment
This message views fine in IMP 5.
11/09/2008 Chuck Hagenbuch State ⇒ Assigned
Version ⇒ HEAD
 
10/19/2008 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.
10/13/2008 Chuck Hagenbuch State ⇒ Feedback
 
10/13/2008 morgan (at) orst (dot) edu Comment #9 Reply to this comment

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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 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 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 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 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 Jan Schneider Deleted Attachment: 77054.
 
11/30/2007 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
11/30/2007 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 Jan Schneider Deleted Attachment: 77054.
 
11/30/2007 Jan Schneider Comment #2
State ⇒ Feedback		 Reply to this comment
The attched message was empty.
11/30/2007 morgan (at) orst (dot) edu Comment #1
Summary ⇒ multipart/alternative MIME handling
Priority ⇒ 1. Low
Type ⇒ Bug
State ⇒ Unconfirmed
Queue ⇒ IMP
New Attachment: 77054.		 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.