Bug 36761

Summary:	support for outlook uuencoded attachment
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	Andrea Rizzi <rizzi>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	ronaldkaehler
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Andrea Rizzi 2002-01-03 14:59:52 UTC

(*** This bug was imported into bugs.kde.org ***)

Package:           kmail
Version:           KDE 2.9.1 CVS/CVSup/Snapshot
Severity:          wishlist
Installed from:    Compiled sources
Compiler:          gcc version 2.96 20000731
OS:                Linux
OS/Compiler notes: Not Specified

KMail cannot handle uuencoded attachment from outlook.
A message with uuencoded attachment is like this:
in the header:
X-MS-Attachment: 1stAttach 0 00-00-1980 00:00
X-MS-Attachment: 2ndfile.tar.gz 0 00-00-1980 00:00
the the body of the message and at the end of the body

begin 600 1stAttach
data
end

begin 600 2ndfile.tar.gz
data
end

It would be nice to support those type of attachments too. If you need more info I can send a message containing uuencoded attachments.

(Submitted via bugs.kde.org)

Comment 1 Ingo Kl 2002-01-03 22:48:50 UTC

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On Thursday 03 January 2002 15:59 rizzi@kde.org wrote:
> It would be nice to support those type of attachments too. If you
> need more info I can send a message containing uuencoded attachments.

This type of encoding is deprecated since MIME was invented (RFC 1341 is=20
from June 1992) and even Outlook users shouldn't use it anymore.

Regards
Ingo
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Comment 2 Marc Mutz 2002-01-05 11:36:15 UTC

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On Thursday 03 January 2002 23:48 Ingo Kl=F6cker wrote:
> On Thursday 03 January 2002 15:59 rizzi@kde.org wrote:
> > It would be nice to support those type of attachments too. If you
> > need more info I can send a message containing uuencoded
> > attachments.
>
> This type of encoding is deprecated since MIME was invented (RFC 1341
> is from June 1992) and even Outlook users shouldn't use it anymore.
<snip>

And it's a duplicate -> closing.

Marc

- --=20
In July [...] the FBI arrested a Russian computer security researcher
who had presented a paper on the strengths and weaknesses of software
used to protect electronic books. Dmitry Sklyarov [...] landed in jail
because the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) makes publishing
critical research on this technology a more serious offense than
publishing nuclear weapon designs.
                               -- Bruce Schneier Crypto-Gram Aug 2001
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Comment 3 Ingo Klöcker 2002-10-20 16:39:46 UTC

*** Bug 48636 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***