Bug 164651 - some base64 encoded emails are shown with binary crap at the end
Summary: some base64 encoded emails are shown with binary crap at the end
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: kmail
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Compiled Sources Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdepim bugs
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Reported: 2008-06-22 09:36 UTC by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
Modified: 2008-06-22 14:34 UTC (History)
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problematic email (2.83 KB, text/plain)
2008-06-22 09:37 UTC, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz 		Details
png screenshot of how kmail displays this message (63.92 KB, image/png)
2008-06-22 09:38 UTC, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz 		Details
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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.