228912 - Encoding of Unicode XML file as an attachment in mails does not work

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Database, defect)

Description

[Manfred Mustermann]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

If you have a XML file in 16 Bit Unicode (as it may be created using Windows-OS)
and attach it to a mail the mail gets send as "multipart" and the
XML-Unicode-file-part gets sent encoded as "quoted-printable". This results in
destroying the CR LF line breaks. I was able to track the problem down to the
encoding scheme. In a Unicode XML file a CR LF is encoded like that: "0x00 0x0A
0x00 0x0D". Using quoted-printable encoding it gets encoded as
"=00<CR><LF>=00<CR><LF>" with <CR> is 0x0A and <LF> is 0x0D. As you can see
there is now later no way to reproduce the sequence "0x00 0x0A 0x00 0x0D". But
to be able to reproduce this is absolutely necessary. Decoding of such a
XML-Unicode file attachment will result in "0x00 0x0A 0x0D 0x00 0x0A 0x0D" which
is invalid in a Unicode XML file. Ergo: After sending an Unicode-XML file as an
attachment this file will no longer be a valid XML file if you save this
attachment (or simply decode this "quoted-printable" section).

Solution: Either improve the "quoted-printable" encoding or switch to "base64"
encoding as it is done for the non-ascii-attachments.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a XML file in 16 bit Unicode format
2. Attach it to a mail
3. Send the mail to your mail account
4. Retrieve the mail (f.e. via POP3)
5. Open the mail
6. Save the XML-file-attachment
7. Try to open the XML-file saved in step 6

Actual Results:  
Opening the XML file will not work, the original file and the file saved are
different. But they shouldn't be.

Expected Results:  
You should be able to have the same file after decoding as befor it was encoded
for sending the mail.

Comment 1

[Manfred Mustermann]

Attachment: raw mail sniplet of XML file attached as it gets encoded

Comment 2

[David :Bienvenu]

please try 1.6 - I believe this is fixed.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Manfred Mustermann: comment 2 suggests that this bug was fixed; can you confirm 
with a current build of Mozilla (or Thunderbird)?

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

No response from reporter; =>WFM