Bug 1147169 - Can't receive nested attachment in e-mail
Summary: Can't receive nested attachment in e-mail
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: evolution
Version: 21
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Milan Crha
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-09-27 20:21 UTC by Peter H. Jones
Modified: 2014-09-29 08:32 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2014-09-29 08:32:48 UTC
Type: Bug
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
Berkely mail folder (43.21 KB, application/mbox)
2014-09-27 20:21 UTC, Peter H. Jones
no flags Details

Description Peter H. Jones 2014-09-27 20:21:27 UTC
Created attachment 941887 [details]
Berkely mail folder

Description of problem:
Can't read an attachment nested in an attachment

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
evolution-3.8.5-2.fc19.x86_64

How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Import the attached Berkely mbox folder and try to display the PDF attachment

Actual results:
Inactive icon

Expected results:
Should be able to read the PDF. Ideally, evolution should display the nested structure.

Additional info:
I have edited the header to protect personal information. The PDF is a press release, so there's no problem posting that.

Comment 1 Peter H. Jones 2014-09-28 04:15:28 UTC
Same thing happens in a custom live build with
evolution-data-server-3.12.6-1.fc21.x86_64
evolution-3.12.6-1.fc21.x86_64 .

Comment 2 Milan Crha 2014-09-29 08:32:48 UTC
Thanks for a bug report. I checked the message source and as far as I can tell, evolution does it correctly. The thing is that the message source, the one which is shown with an "missing image" icon, references the attached pdf file as that image, which is not correct. And as the text body and the PDF are in multipart/related, which means that that they belong together, then the PDF file is not shown in UI of evolution as a real attachment.

Maybe Apple Mail handles this differently, but it at least feels wrong to see the PDF referenced as an image. Right-clicking the "missing image" icon and choosing "Save image..." offers the PDF file and after I save it I can open it and see its content. Due to this I do not think it's evolution to be blamed.


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