Bug 79771

Summary:	When a message has a winmail.dat (TNEF) attachment, KMail always assumes it's an ical attachment
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	Jan de Visser <jan>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	christian.weickhmann, thiago
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	Message with winmail.dat attachment Patch fixing the parsing of non-meeting tnef attachments Patch superseeding earlier non-functional 'fix'

Description Jan de Visser 2004-04-16 20:25:11 UTC

Version:           Version 1.6.51 (using KDE Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources
Compiler:          gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)
 
OS:          Linux

Whenever I get a message with a winmail.dat (TNEF) attachment, KMail shows me this:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//K Desktop Environment//NONSGML libkcal 3.2//EN VERSION:2.0 END:VCALENDAR 

and nothing else.

It appears that KMail assumes that every winmail.dat attachment has an ical meeting request in it, even if it doesn't. I usually get them from people using Microsoft rich text to compose messages.

It's annoying, 'cause you have to go to the mime tree and find the proper body part.

See attachment for example message.

Comment 1 Jan de Visser 2004-04-16 20:26:16 UTC

Created attachment 5663 [details]
Message with winmail.dat attachment

Comment 2 groot 2004-04-29 00:32:09 UTC

Confirmed with message with subject "KOrganizer and meetings with attendees" to kde-pim on april 29th.

Comment 3 Jan de Visser 2004-04-29 00:38:12 UTC

Well, um, technically they could be different problems I guess. Adriaan's 
problem is that whenever there's an ical, it thinks it is an invitation, 
whereas my problem is that it always thinks that a winmail.dat has an ical in 
it (which it then forces on you, triggering Adriaan's problem ;-)

Comment 4 Jan de Visser 2004-05-17 00:42:07 UTC

Created attachment 6032 [details]
Patch fixing the parsing of non-meeting tnef attachments

Comment 5 Thiago Macieira 2004-06-01 22:44:22 UTC

Bug #73951 is similar.

Comment 6 Jan de Visser 2004-06-01 23:30:49 UTC

Created attachment 6220 [details]
Patch superseeding earlier non-functional 'fix'

After a discussion on kmail-devel it was decided to disable the handling of
tnef attachments for 3.3. Ingo attempted to do as much, but his fix
(objecttreeparser.cpp rev 1.105) didn't work for me. This patch does.

Comment 7 Jan de Visser 2004-06-03 15:38:39 UTC

Can somebody with enough mojo please confirm this bug so I can close it? It's 
fixed. Thank you.

Comment 8 David Faure 2004-06-03 16:16:56 UTC

It's fixed -> closing.

Jan: you can close bugs but not confirm them? that's a bit strange; shall I check your bugzilla permissions?

Comment 9 Stephan Kulow 2004-06-03 20:33:02 UTC

David: any reporter can close his own bugs

Comment 10 David Faure 2004-06-03 20:39:04 UTC

I know. But now I also know what happened: Jan's email address changed.
The bug reporter is jan@devisser-siderius.com, but he's now jdevisser@digitalfairway.com.

Comment 11 Thiago Macieira 2004-12-22 02:09:12 UTC

*** Bug 73951 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***