Bug 97813
Summary: | Unable to decode base64 attachments | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Tethys <sta040> |
Component: | exmh | Assignee: | Michael Fulbright <msf> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 9 | ||
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Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2004-04-16 21:41:02 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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<QUOTE> I have a horrible feeling that your solution will be to just remove exmh from future versions of the distribution </QUOTE> This is exactly what has happened and exmh has been withdrawn from Fedora Core 1, the replacement for Red Hat Linux 9. Red Hat's policy of abandoning desktop applications is in line with the statement by Matthew Szulik, chief executive of Linux vendor Red Hat <QUOTE> "I would say that for the consumer market place, Windows probably continues to be the right product line." </QUOTE> exmh has been removed from Fedora Core 1, but that doesn't prevent anyone from installing it from upstream. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 Description of problem: When viewing an email with an attachment with a Content-Transfer-Encoding of base64, exmh is no longer able to display the contents, as it did in previous versions of Red Hat Linux. This appears to be because the metamail package isn't being shipped with RH9, and hence the mmencode program that exmh uses isn't present. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): exmh-2.5-8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. View a base64 encoded attachment 2 [details]. 3. Actual Results: exmh displays the raw base64 encoded text Expected Results: It should display the decoded content Additional info: I have a horrible feeling that your solution will be to just remove exmh from future versions of the distribution (as you've done with half the other apps I use daily :-). *Please* don't do this!!!