[kmail2] [Bug 357606] New: All the mails from one of my contacts cannot be displayed

Éric Brunet via KDE Bugzilla bugzilla_noreply at kde.org
Wed Jan 6 08:41:57 GMT 2016


https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=357606

            Bug ID: 357606
           Summary: All the mails from one of my contacts cannot be
                    displayed
           Product: kmail2
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Fedora RPMs
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: major
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
          Reporter: eric.brunet at lps.ens.fr

I am using kmail 4.14.10 on an up-to-date fedora 23 linux machine.

One of my contacts are sending some mails (usually with attachments) which I am
enable to read. When I try to open their message in kmail, the headers are
correct (From:, To:, Date:) but the body of the message is replaced by the
following gibberish:
           N¬Æ¦º[b¥ªíë,j¢Âú+«
Furthermore, the message is marked as "No HTML" (it is actually HTML+Text) and
it doesn't see any attachment (there is one).

*) If I open the message on the web interface of my provider, everything works.
*) I can save the message locally from kmail with File->Save As into a .mbox
file. Then, I can
    read the email and the attachment from the .mbox file with mutt
*) If I try to open the .mbox file from kmail, it still doesn't work.

It is very annoying and make kmail unusable for this particular contact.

I am attaching one of their emails to demonstrate the problem. What I actually
did was:
  1) I saved one of their email into bugreport.mbox 
  2) I edited bugreport.mbox to replace all the names/addresses/Tel/etc with
XXXXX. I tried
      not to change the number of characters.
  3) similarly, IP addresses and numeric IDs have been replaced by strings of
1.
  4) I removed the attached .pdf (encoded in base64) and replaced it by another
dummy pdf
  5) I tried to recompute the values of the headers "Content-Length:" and
"Lines:" to account
      for the modified .pdf

This way, bugreport.mbox should not contain any sensitive information. I
checked that the resulting file could be viewed with mutt (including the
attachment) but not with kmail.


Reproducible: Always

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