[spambayes-bugs] [ spambayes-Bugs-819684 ] Message stream from Evolution MIME message is truncated

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Bugs item #819684, was opened at 2003-10-08 13:51
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Category: Outlook
Group: None
>Status: Pending
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: JD Brennan (jazzdevotee)
Assigned to: Mark Hammond (mhammond)
Summary: Message stream from Evolution MIME message is truncated

Initial Comment:
When a MIME message is received from the Evolution Mail
client the SpamBayes Outlook plugin truncates the
message stream after the headers and only tokenizers
the headers.

Message source looks like this:

...
Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1;
protocol="application/pgp-signature";
boundary="=-7FQBfj5xPKbUE94YalzJ"
Organization: 
Message-Id: <1065568187.23375.8.camel at wookie>
Mime-Version: 1.0
X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4 
Date: 07 Oct 2003 16:09:47 -0700
Content-Length: 5759


--=-7FQBfj5xPKbUE94YalzJ
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

message here
...

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Show spam clues indicates the message stream is
only the headers.   The message appears to get
truncated after the Date header.

My guess is that this is because Evolution puts
two blanks lines after the headers instead of one.
Other mail clients I tried only put one blank line
after the headers before the first MIME boundary.

Surprisingly this really doesn't seem to matter.
SpamBayes quickly learned these messages were
not spam.  SpamBayes rocks!  And so does the
Outlook plugin!


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Comment By: Tony Meyer (anadelonbrin)
Date: 2005-02-10 14:51

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We haven't heard from the original reporter of the bug for some
time.  Without the requested information, there really isn't much
we can do.  If anyone does provide further information, please
also change the bug status back to "Open".

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Comment By: Mark Hammond (mhammond)
Date: 2003-12-20 23:14

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Sorry for the delay here.  The best thing you could do is
install Python+SpamBayes source, and run the dump_props
program against this message.  Second best (but really just
as good <wink>) is to wait for the next binary release,
which will include dump_props as an executable

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Comment By: JD Brennan (jazzdevotee)
Date: 2003-10-08 15:19

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A little Googling turned up a comment from Tim Peters
a year ago:

> The Outlook client right now "loses" all 
> attachments, and even loses the msg body if the msg has been 
> digitally signed (because it turns out Outlook does Yet 
> Another Entirely Different Thing for signed msgs, leaving the 
> two "normal" body properties empty and stuffing the body 
> *plus* the signature into Yet Another property).

So if it's possible to figure out the name of this
"Yet Another property", I could probably test and
submit a patch (to msgstore.GetEmailPackageObject).

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