Bug 83567

Summary:	bogus "body is binary but used as text" complaints
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	mi+kde
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	kde
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	1.6.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	FreeBSD
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description mi+kde 2004-06-18 00:16:03 UTC

Version:           1.6.2 (using KDE 3.2.3, compiled sources)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.3 [FreeBSD] 20031106
OS:                FreeBSD (i386) release 5.2-CURRENT

Some e-mails -- can't figure the pattern out exactly -- cause kmail to output:

kmail: WARNING: KMMessagePart::bodyDecoded(): body is binary but used as text!

to stdout or stderr. Definitely, the e-mails sent by vi's recovery cause this, probably, others. The e-mails are displayed properly, but these messages pollute the screen and -- worse -- the .xession-errors file, which eventually (after a couple of months) outgrows my /home-partition.

Comment 1 Gareth McCaughan 2004-08-16 11:37:44 UTC

Something similar happens to me too, with 1.6.1/3.2.1 on FreeBSD 4-something. I also haven't worked out exactly which mails provoke this behaviour, but it certainly isn't only vi recovery ones. I'm getting the warning twice on every mail message I get from the python-dev list.

Comment 2 Dik Takken 2004-10-27 23:10:49 UTC

The KMail version of KDE 3.3.0 is crashing on some e-mails. It prints the following messages to stdout:

kmail: WARNING: KMMessagePart::bodyDecoded(): body is binary but used as text!
kmail: WARNING: KMMessagePart::bodyDecoded(): body is binary but used as text!
kmail: WARNING: KMMessagePart::bodyDecoded(): body is binary but used as text!
kmail: WARNING: KMMessagePart::bodyDecoded(): body is binary but used as text!
kmail: WARNING: KMMessagePart::bodyDecoded(): body is binary but used as text!
kmail: WARNING: KMMessagePart::bodyDecoded(): body is binary but used as text!
QGDict::hashKeyString: Invalid null key
kioslave: ####### CRASH ###### protocol = newimap pid = 1830 signal = 11

Comment 3 Carsten Burghardt 2004-10-28 12:52:38 UTC

Please attach one of the messages that crash.

Comment 4 Jonathan Marten 2006-10-28 18:41:55 UTC

KDE-PIM bugs day: cannot reproduce, many versions ago, information requested but none provided. Closing.