| Summary: | All the mails from one of my contacts cannot be displayed | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] kdepim | Reporter: | Éric Brunet <eric.brunet> |
| Component: | messageviewer | Assignee: | kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs> |
| Status: | REPORTED --- | ||
| Severity: | major | ||
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Fedora RPMs | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
| Attachments: | One message that kmail cannot read but that mutt can read | ||
Created attachment 96478 [details]
One message that kmail cannot read but that mutt can read
Sorry, on the first line, please read that I am "unable" to read the messages, not "enable"... Thank you for reporting this bug in KDE software. As it has been a while since this issue was reported, can we please ask you to see if you can reproduce the issue with a recent software version? If you can reproduce the issue, please change the status to "REPORTED" when replying. Thank you! Yes, I confirm the bug is still present. Six (!!!!) years later, I saved my own attachment as a .mbox file, I configured kmail to treat this .mbox file as a new "Receiving Account", i could see the subject and date of the e-mail, but the content displayed as N��Ʀ�[b�����,j����+��, with no attachment. As before, mutt was able to read the e-mail, and save the pdf file. I also found the original e-mail in my 2016 archive, and the problem is still there. What about you? Can't you reproduce the issue? I am really curious. That being said, i no longer exchange e-mails with that specific contact, so I am no longer impacted. Éric Brunet |
I am using kmail 4.14.10 on an up-to-date fedora 23 linux machine. One of my contacts are sending some mails (usually with attachments) which I am enable to read. When I try to open their message in kmail, the headers are correct (From:, To:, Date:) but the body of the message is replaced by the following gibberish: N¬Æ¦º[b¥ªíë,j¢Âú+« Furthermore, the message is marked as "No HTML" (it is actually HTML+Text) and it doesn't see any attachment (there is one). *) If I open the message on the web interface of my provider, everything works. *) I can save the message locally from kmail with File->Save As into a .mbox file. Then, I can read the email and the attachment from the .mbox file with mutt *) If I try to open the .mbox file from kmail, it still doesn't work. It is very annoying and make kmail unusable for this particular contact. I am attaching one of their emails to demonstrate the problem. What I actually did was: 1) I saved one of their email into bugreport.mbox 2) I edited bugreport.mbox to replace all the names/addresses/Tel/etc with XXXXX. I tried not to change the number of characters. 3) similarly, IP addresses and numeric IDs have been replaced by strings of 1. 4) I removed the attached .pdf (encoded in base64) and replaced it by another dummy pdf 5) I tried to recompute the values of the headers "Content-Length:" and "Lines:" to account for the modified .pdf This way, bugreport.mbox should not contain any sensitive information. I checked that the resulting file could be viewed with mutt (including the attachment) but not with kmail. Reproducible: Always