[Alpine-info] Displaying Message/RFC822 attachments fails with IMAP

[Mark Crispin]

Try it with UW and/or Cyrus imapd.  Then, once you see that it does
work, compare the working imapd's BODYSTRUCTURE with the one from
your two servers.  That will reveal the answer.

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> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:18:23 +0200

> From: heikki.vesalainen at ixonos.com

> To: alpine-info at u.washington.edu

> Subject: [Alpine-info] Displaying Message/RFC822 attachments fails with IMAP

> 

> 

> Hi,

> 

> (per recommendation of Steve Hubert I'm sending this "bug report" / 

> "request for help" to the list).

> 

> I'm having problems getting alpine to display Message/RFC822 type 

> attachments correctly when using IMAP. The problem occurs with two 

> different servers (i.e. on all that I've tried). Instead of the attached 

> messages text I get "[Can't display missing text segment]". The attachment 

> is correctly displayed in the attachment index and also the headers (even 

> complete headers) of the attached mail is correctly shown when the 

> attachment is opened.

> 

> Reading the RFC822 attachments works if mail is read from a local Mailbox 

> instead of IMAP.

> 

>>From my debugging I see that alpine does not even try to download the body 

> of the attached RFC822 message. First I thought it was because of a broken 

> BODYSTRUCTURE message from the server, but as I cannot see anything wrong 

> with the structure (see below) and this occurs with two different servers, 

> I'm out of ideas. And as I said, alpine knows how to request the headers 

> of the attached message, so why wont it even try to request the body text? 

> Can anyone spot the problem? If anyone has attachmed RFC822:s working over 

> IMAP, can you please post the BODYSTRUCTURE response your server is giving 

> so we can compare.

> 

> BODYSTRUCTURE (("TEXT" "PLAIN" ("charset" "us-ascii") NIL NIL 

> "QUOTED-PRINTABLE" 0 0 NIL NIL NIL NIL)("MESSAGE" "RFC822" NIL NIL NIL NIL 

> 1521651 ("Sun, 5 Oct 2008 00:43:39 +0300" "[Fwd: rfc822test]" (("Joe Moe" 

> NIL "joe" "moe.fi")) (("Joe Moe" NIL "joe" "moe.fi")) (("Joe Moe" NIL 

> "joe" "moe.fi")) (("Joe Moe" NIL "joe" "moe.fi")("Voss Hoss" NIL 

> "voss.hoss" "hoss.com")) NIL NIL NIL "") (("TEXT" 

> "PLAIN" ("charset" "us-ascii") NIL NIL "QUOTED-PRINTABLE" 0 0 NIL NIL NIL 

> NIL)("MESSAGE" "RFC822" NIL NIL NIL NIL 1520822 ("Sun, 5 Oct 2008 00:42:40 

> +0300" "rfc822test" (("Joe Moe" NIL "joe" "moe.fi")) (("Joe Moe" NIL "joe" 

> "moe.fi")) (("Joe Moe" NIL "joe" "moe.fi")) (("Voss Hoss" NIL "voss.hoss" 

> "hoss.com")) NIL NIL NIL "") (("TEXT" "PLAIN" 

> ("charset" "iso-8859-1") NIL NIL "QUOTED-PRINTABLE" 9 0 NIL NIL NIL 

> NIL)("IMAGE" "JPEG" ("name" "P6210024.JPG") NIL "P6210024.JPG" "BASE64" 

> 1519786 NIL ("attachment" NIL) NIL NIL) "MIXED" ("boundary"! 

> "_002_48E7E3503010209moefi_") NIL NIL NIL) 0 NIL NIL NIL NIL) "MIXED" 

> ("boundary" "_002_48E7E38B1020502moefi_") NIL NIL NIL) 0 NIL NIL NIL NIL) 

> "MIXED" ("boundary" "_002_48E7E3B41020006moefi_") NIL ("fi-FI") NIL))

> 

> And an other one just to show this is not an isolated case:

> 

> BODYSTRUCTURE (("TEXT" "PLAIN" ("charset" "iso-8859-1") NIL NIL 

> "QUOTED-PRINTABLE" 11 0 NIL NIL NIL NIL)("MESSAGE" "RFC822" NIL NIL NIL 

> NIL 1780 ("Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:38:49 +0300" "(ei aihetta)" (("Nick Maa" 

> NIL "nick.maa" "pp.inet.fi")) (("Nick Maa" NIL "nick.maa" "pp.inet.fi")) 

> (("Nick Maa" NIL "nick.maa" "pp.inet.fi")) (("Jie Moe" NIL "joe" 

> "moe.fi")) NIL NIL NIL "") ("TEXT" "PLAIN" 

> ("charset" "iso-8859-1") NIL NIL "QUOTED-PRINTABLE" 323 0 NIL NIL NIL NIL) 

> 0 NIL NIL NIL NIL) "MIXED" ("boundary" "_002_48D74F389030204hoivakuufi_") 

> NIL ("fi-FI") NIL))

> 

> The second one is shown by alpine as

> 

> MESSAGE:

> 

> Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:54:32 +0300

> From: Joe Moe 

> To: Voss Hoss 

> Subject: A Subject

> Parts/Attachments:

>     1 Shown     ~2 lines  Text

>     2   OK    ~1.7 KB     Message

> ----------------------------------------

> 

> Some text.

> 

> 

>      [ Part 2, Message/RFC822 ~1.7 KB. ]

>      [ Not Shown. Use the "V" command to view or save this part. ]

> 

> ATTACHMENT INDEX:

> 

>     1     ~2 lines   Text/PLAIN

>     2   ~1.7 KB      Message/RFC822, "(ei aihetta)"

> 

> ATTACHED MESSAGE:

> 

> Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:38:49 +0300

> From: Nick Moe 

> To: Joe Moe 

> Subject: (ei aihetta)

> 

> [Can't display missing text segment]

> 

> The sequence of fetches that alpine does is:

> 

> - BODYSTRUCTURE when the mail is opened

> - BODY[1] to get the text of the main message

> - BODY[2.HEADER] when the attached message is opened

> 

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