Bug 164651

Summary:	some base64 encoded emails are shown with binary crap at the end
Product:	[Applications] kmail	Reporter:	Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Attachments:	problematic email png screenshot of how kmail displays this message

Description Arkadiusz Miskiewicz 2008-06-22 09:36:33 UTC

Version:           3.5.9 (using KDE 3.5.9)
Installed from:    Compiled From Sources
Compiler:          4.2.4 
OS:                Linux

The mail
http://carme.pld-linux.org/~arekm/kmail-bin-crap-msg.txt
is displayed like this:
http://carme.pld-linux.org/~arekm/kmail-bin-crap.png
(note binary crap at the end)

Comment 1 Arkadiusz Miskiewicz 2008-06-22 09:37:25 UTC

Created attachment 25510 [details]
problematic email

Comment 2 Arkadiusz Miskiewicz 2008-06-22 09:38:33 UTC

Created attachment 25511 [details]
png screenshot of how kmail displays this message

Comment 3 Thomas McGuire 2008-06-22 14:34:10 UTC

The mail is not a vaild MIME message.
This seems to be a bug in the mailing list software, which adds unsubscribe information to the mail in plain text, even though the mail body is encoded in base64.

The mailing list software should add a new body part instead, or respect the encoding.