Re: [Evolution] Reply or Forward messages with Attachments

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

FWIW, i've fixed this in 1.5.x now.  I just test the length byte matches
the data length.  Some things could throw it (trailing spaces), but i'm
not sure there's much else we can do.

On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 12:54 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> Joy.
>
> I think the code used to validate each line but it doesn't now, which
> you can do with uuencoding.  Hopefully it isn't that hard to fix.
>
> What sort of old pos software is still sending out uuencoded attachments
> anyway?
>
>
> On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 09:04 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > welcome to the fun world of inline uuencode :-\
> >
> > and yes, it's a bug. the code that auto-detects inline uuencode is
> > apparently assuming the following text is also part of the uuencoded
> > blurb because there is no 'end' line between the truncated uuencoded
> > blurb and the rest of his message text.
> >
> > this is why uuencode sucks.
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> > On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 07:58, Michael-John Anthony wrote:
> > > This is interesting, because when I view Alan's original email (Evo
> > > 1.4.6), only get the first line - not the text below this garble:
> > >
> > > "Scanned the archives but couldn't find anything. I would be surprised
> > > if nobody else had this problem. Running V1.4.5 on deb testing."
> > >
> > > See attached screenshot.
> > >
> > > If I view via 'email source', then I get the whole message - otherwise,
> > > it's truncated.
> > >
> > > Sounds like a bug, ey? :)
> > >
> > >    -- M.
> > >
> > > On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 11:19, Alan Graham wrote:
> > > > Whenever I Reply or Forward messages with Attachments it includes the
> > > > file as text e.g.
> > > >
> > > > begin 600 TrafficReport1.xls
> > > > MT,\1X*&Q&N$`````````````````````/@`#`/[_"0`&```````````````%
> > > > M`````0``````````$```8P````,```#^____``````````!V``````$``'D!
> > > > M``#Y`0``____________________________________________________
> > > >
> > > > Scanned the archives but couldn't find anything. I would be surprised if
> > > > nobody else had this problem.
> > > >
> > > > Running V1.4.5 on deb testing.
> > > >
> > > > AG
> > > >
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> > Jeffrey Stedfast
> > Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
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