Bug 204485

Summary:	base64-encoded parts are unfilterable
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	Szczepan Hołyszewski <rulatir>
Component:	filtering	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	bjoern, kollix, pancho.s, winter
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.12.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Szczepan Hołyszewski 2009-08-20 09:34:46 UTC

Version:           1.12.0 (using KDE 4.3.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Unlisted Binary Package

Base64-encoded message parts are apparently passed to filters undecoded. This means that filters using "Message body... contains..." or "Whole message... contains..." criteria fail on such messages.

Solution: decode parts before passing them to filters.

Comment 1 Björn Ruberg 2010-03-04 23:54:42 UTC

Interesting. Can the developers confirm this?

Comment 2 Thomas McGuire 2010-03-05 08:34:38 UTC

> Interesting. Can the developers confirm this?

Yes, this is very probably true, I think we just pass the encoded mail to the filters and don't decode anything.

Comment 3 Björn Ruberg 2010-03-05 09:54:18 UTC

This might explain why searching for umlauts fail as well

Comment 4 Bernd Oliver Sünderhauf 2011-12-27 06:21:18 UTC

There's many bugs left, but at least this one seems to be fixed in kmail2 (4.8)

Comment 5 Allen Winter 2012-02-13 18:39:58 UTC

Comment #4 says this one is fixed in 4.8, so I will resolve it.

please reopen as needed.