Bug 54476

Summary:	opening of mail forwarded as application/octet-stream
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	Gerd v. Egidy <gerd>
Component:	mime	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	dominik.tritscher, vincent.rabaud
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	testcase, triaged
Version:	1.10.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	RedHat Enterprise Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	testcase

Description Gerd v. Egidy 2003-02-11 14:36:35 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.1)
Installed from:    RedHat RPMs
OS:          Linux

Some popular Mail Client from Redmond sets the MIME-type of complete forwarded emails to "application/octet-stream" and not to "message/rfc822" as e.g. kmail does.
If someone saves a complete mail to a file and attaches it to another mail the correct mimetype gets lost too.

I haven't found a way to open such mails with kmail. If I try the "open with" dialog and enter "kmail" I get a new message window with a mail to "/tmp/kde-gerd/kmailTEQbKa.3/forwarded message.eml"...

the kmail in kde 3.0 could open such mails without hassle.

Comment 1 Stephan Kulow 2003-09-24 21:25:04 UTC

example mail? I hear of that problem for the first time

Comment 2 Gerd v. Egidy 2003-10-20 00:07:33 UTC

Created attachment 2828 [details]
testcase

sorry for the delay - had some holiday...

Comment 3 Till Adam 2004-10-24 12:43:21 UTC

The attached mail is shown with 0 byte size. Something is indeed wrong.

Comment 4 Dominik Tritscher 2008-08-31 13:51:50 UTC

I can reproduce that problem with KDE4.1
Anyways, I'm not sure if this is a kmail issue, as it is caused by the wrong mimetype set by another MUA.

Comment 5 Vincent Rabaud 2009-02-13 20:05:09 UTC

I am facing the same problem with KDE 4.2 on Kubuntu Intrepid.

In my case, a word document in a forwarded message has a MIME type of application/octet-stream.

There has to be a simple solution as saving the attachment to disk "restores" its MIME type or at least makes it openable by a simple click.

Comment 6 Thomas McGuire 2009-08-13 22:26:59 UTC

Closing, as the original mail here in the bug report has an invalid mimetype.