| Summary: | Comments in Content-Transfer-Encoding are not ignored | ||
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| Product: | [Unmaintained] kmail | Reporter: | Rolf Eike Beer <kde> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | bjoern |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | unspecified | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
The buggy function is "void DwMechanism::StringToEnum()" in kdepim/mimelib/mechansm.cpp which matches against the whole string without stripping comments first. This bug still appears btw in KMail 1.9.1 (shipped with KDE 3.5.2). Is this still a problem? Works in 4.8.4 now. |
Version: 1.1 (using KDE 3.4.0 Level "b" , SUSE 9.3) Compiler: gcc version 3.3.5 20050117 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux) OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.11-rc1 RfC 2045, page 4: All of the header fields defined in this document are subject to the general syntactic rules for header fields specified in RFC 822. In particular, all of these header fields except for Content-Disposition can include RFC 822 comments, which have no semantic content and should be ignored during MIME processing. RfC 822, page 10: comment = "(" *(ctext / quoted-pair / comment) ")" Test case: --- Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable (comment) =C3=B6 =C3=A4 =C3=BC=20 bla=09 =09 =20 --- The body is displayed "raw" by KMail/Kontact. Removing the comment brings back proper display of the mail.