Bug 115081

Summary: kmail want not to decode x-uue attachments
Product: [Unmaintained] kmail Reporter: Dmitry Morozhnikov <dmiceman>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Linux   
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Description Dmitry Morozhnikov 2005-10-25 20:45:30 UTC
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.4.2)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
Compiler:          gcc3.4.4 
OS:                Linux

Looks like kmail or libkmime does not treat attachments with CTE: x-uue as uuencoded. Such attachments are shown as plain text without decodind. Also they are saved to disk as is.

Example message part:

===============================================
------------1AE01EB1B4611B2
Content-Type: text/plain; name="letter-alan.txt"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: x-uue
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="letter-alan.txt"

begin 644 letter-alan.txt
M2&D@06QA;B$-"DAI($1M:71R>2$-"@T*05,^($YO=R!T:&%T('=E(&AA=F4@
M86QL(&AA9"!T:&4@=V5E:V5N9"!T;R!T86ME('-T;V-K+"!)(&%M('=R:71I
===============================================

Instead of content i see "begin 644..." both in internal viewer and after "Save As..."

Maybe adding one line to kdepim/libkmime/kmime_headers.cpp would fix this, but i`m not sure..

Such attachments are created with at least "X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.61)"
Comment 1 Thiago Macieira 2005-10-26 04:43:20 UTC
Right. KMail doesn't decode UUencoded attachments. Please use MIME.

Closing as WONTFIX because, last I heard, support for UUencode is not wanted in KMail. There may be a closed wishlist item for this, so you can try and find it and post comments on it.