Re: [Evolution] Evolution Mangles Attachments?

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

This sounds like an imap server issue.

Evolution downloads multipart messages in separate chunks; using the
imap protocol probably a bit heavier than many other clients (and often
for no benefit, but i digress ...).

I suggest:
 - open a bug (there is probably one already there but if you can't find
it with a quick search, its not that important).
 - run evolution-mail with CAMEL_VERBOSE_DEBUG=1 set, then run evolution
 - send a new message with an attachment
 - click on it in your imap account to view/download it
 - exit evolution

Attach the message in the sent folder (i.e. the original message) to the
bug.

And attach the output of evolution-mail from when the new message was
delivered/viewed via imap.  there should be a BODY command followed by
bunch of fetch commands and results.  If in doubt, just attach
everything (search/replace any sensitive data, like email addresses).


On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 23:15, Tracy A. Cerise wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I've too have been experiencing problems with attachments.  Let me
> preface by stating that any attachments I receive or send I can read in
> other mail clients, just not Evolution.  Also, I am using IMAP to a
> Novell NetMail message store.  Here is a sample message snippet and what
> it looks like when:
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 1. Taken directly from the mailbox on the message store (no client)
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Subject: test attach
> From: "Tracy A. Cerise" <tracy uky edu>
> To: tracy uky edu
> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-JpWGovCUc2nvfIQyQdw8"
> X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 (1.0.8-10)
> Date: 27 Feb 2003 06:48:20 -0500
> Message-Id: <1046346500 7450 4 camel serrano>
> Mime-Version: 1.0
>
>
> --=-JpWGovCUc2nvfIQyQdw8
> Content-Type: text/plain
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
>
> this is a test
>
>
> --=-JpWGovCUc2nvfIQyQdw8
> Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=acctmgr_step1.jpg
> Content-Type: image/jpeg; name=acctmgr_step1.jpg
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>
> /9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQABLAEsAAD/2wBDAAEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEB
> AQEBAQICAQECAQEBAgICAgICAgICAQICAgICAgICAgL/2wBDAQEBAQEBAQEBAQECAQEBAgICAgIC
> AgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgL/wAARCAAxAbIDASIA
> AhEBAxEB/8QAHwAAAgEEAwEBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAgHBQYJCgIDBAEL/8QATBAAAgIBAwQABAMDBgcN
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 2. Taken from the NetMail web interface (email source view)
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Subject: test attach
> From: "Tracy A. Cerise" <tracy uky edu>
> To: tracy uky edu
> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-JpWGovCUc2nvfIQyQdw8"
> X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 (1.0.8-10)
> Date: 27 Feb 2003 06:48:20 -0500
> Message-Id: <1046346500 7450 4 camel serrano>
> Mime-Version: 1.0
>
>
> --=-JpWGovCUc2nvfIQyQdw8
> Content-Type: text/plain
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
>
> this is a test
>
>
> --=-JpWGovCUc2nvfIQyQdw8
> Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=acctmgr_step1.jpg
> Content-Type: image/jpeg; name=acctmgr_step1.jpg
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>
> /9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQABLAEsAAD/2wBDAAEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEB
> AQEBAQICAQECAQEBAgICAgICAgICAQICAgICAgICAgL/2wBDAQEBAQEBAQEBAQECAQEBAgICAgIC
> AgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgL/wAARCAAxAbIDASIA
> AhEBAxEB/8QAHwAAAgEEAwEBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAgHBQYJCgIDBAEL/8QATBAAAgIBAwQABAMDBgcN
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 3. Taken from Evolution (email source view)
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Subject: test attach
> From: "Tracy A. Cerise" <tracy uky edu>
> To: tracy uky edu
> X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 (1.0.8-10) 
> Date: 27 Feb 2003 06:48:20 -0500
> Message-Id: <1046346500 7450 4 camel serrano>
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-8nZbafup/VoLVVHP5DOt"
> X-Evolution-Source: imap://tracy imap uky edu/
>
>
> --=-8nZbafup/VoLVVHP5DOt
> Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII
>
>
> this is a test
>
>
>
> --=-8nZbafup/VoLVVHP5DOt
> Content-Type: image/jpeg; NAME=acctmgr_step1.jpg
>
> /9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQABLAEsAAD/2wBDAAEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEB
> AQEBAQICAQECAQEBAgICAgICAgICAQICAgICAgICAgL/2wBDAQEBAQEBAQEBAQECAQEBAgICAgIC
> AgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgL/wAARCAAxAbIDASIA
> AhEBAxEB/8QAHwAAAgEEAwEBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAgHBQYJCgIDBAEL/8QATBAAAgIBAwQABAMDBgcN
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 4. Taken from KMail via IMAP on same system (source view)
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Subject: test attach
> From: "Tracy A. Cerise" <tracy uky edu>
> To: tracy uky edu
> Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
>   boundary="=-JpWGovCUc2nvfIQyQdw8"
> X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 (1.0.8-10) 
> Date: 27 Feb 2003 06:48:20 -0500
> Message-Id: <1046346500 7450 4 camel serrano>
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> X-UID: 96544
>
>
> --=-JpWGovCUc2nvfIQyQdw8
> Content-Type: text/plain
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> Subject: 
>
>
> this is a test
>
>
> --=-JpWGovCUc2nvfIQyQdw8
> Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=acctmgr_step1.jpg
> Content-Type: image/jpeg; name=acctmgr_step1.jpg
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>
> /9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQABLAEsAAD/2wBDAAEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEB
> AQEBAQICAQECAQEBAgICAgICAgICAQICAgICAgICAgL/2wBDAQEBAQEBAQEBAQECAQEBAgICAgIC
> AgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgL/wAARCAAxAbIDASIA
> AhEBAxEB/8QAHwAAAgEEAwEBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAgHBQYJCgIDBAEL/8QATBAAAgIBAwQABAMDBgcN
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> A few points to note.
>
> First, this test message and attachment was sent from Evolution, and the
> attachment is not corrupted and can be seen from any other client I have
> tried besides Evolution.  
>
> I am using TLS for both sending and receiving, and as you can see,
> actual encoding of this little jpg file is not changed.  What does
> change though, is that every time I open this message with Evolution and
> look at the source, the multipart/mixed boundary string changes, and you
> will notice that it is different from 1, 2 and 4 above (which are the
> same)(This behavior does not happen with Evolution 1.2 on my test box). 
> I don't know if that means anything or not, just thought I would point
> it out.  Also, I  have the KMail client setup to use TLS for both
> sending and receiving as well.
>
> I am using version 1.0.8-10, I know it is not the latest, but I have
> problems with 1.2 and my IMAP folders.  I have a test box with Evolution
> 1.2, but still get the exact same results as shown above with
> attachments, just not the changing boundry string, it is the same string
> as 1, 2 and 4.
>
> I hope this is helpful to someone to diagnose the problem.  I can
> provide the entire message instead of just the snippets if that will
> help.  I like Evolution, it would just be nice not to have to jump
> though a hoop every time I receive an attachment.
>
> Thanks, 
>
> -tracy a. cerise
>
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