Bug 59193

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; T312461)

Description of problem:
As noted in the manpage, metamail is faulty when handling multipart/alternative 
content types.  This is troublesome when using metamail in conjunction with a 
virus scanner.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
This bug is evoked by the Worm.Klez virus:

[lee@bilbo virus]$ cat klez.mail | metamail -w
From: indicedivx <indicedivx>
To: patches
Subject: Your password
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 18:24:23 +0800

Ignoring unparsable content-type parameter: ''
Cannot handle any part of multipart/alternative message
[lee@bilbo virus]$

Expected Results:  It should have behaved identically to when it runs 
multipart/mixed :

[lee@bilbo virus]$ cat klez.mail | sed 's/alternative/mixed/' | metamail -w
From: indicedivx <indicedivx>
To: patches
Subject: Your password
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 18:24:23 +0800

Ignoring unparsable content-type parameter: ''


This message contains 'text/html`-format data.
Please enter the name of a file to which the data should be written
(Default: /tmp/mm.PCbtrL) >
Wrote file /tmp/mm.PCbtrL


This message contains 'application/octet-stream`-format data.
Please enter the name of a file to which the data should be written
(Default: class.17935DEFANGED-bat) >
Wrote file class.17935DEFANGED-bat


This message contains 'application/octet-stream`-format data.
Please enter the name of a file to which the data should be written
(Default: PASSACT.17935DEFANGED-HTM) >
Wrote file PASSACT.17935DEFANGED-HTM
[lee@bilbo virus]$

Additional info:

I will attach a copy of klez.mail