278880 - base64 encoded mail not being decoded due to missing Content-Type

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 230377

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect)

Description

[Etienne Stanus]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217

this file
--- begin of eml file dump ----
X-UIDL: 10032
X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
Return-Path: <[e-mail]>
X-Sieve: cmu-sieve 2.0
Return-Path: <[e-mail]>
Received: from vmtfimout.chu-tivoli.be (unknown [192.168.3.2])
	by mail.chu-tivoli.be (Postfix) with SMTP id A578C5BA84
	for <[e-mail]>; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 07:53:23 +0100 (CET)
Received: from localhost.localdomain ([192.168.4.1])
 by vmtfimout.chu-tivoli.be (SMSSMTP 4.0.0.59) with SMTP id M2005011807595906728
 for <[e-mail]>; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 07:59:59 +0100
Received: from localhost.localdomain (Cerbere [127.0.0.1])
	by localhost.localdomain (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id j0I700jE020995
	for <[e-mail]>; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 08:00:00 +0100
Received: (from root@localhost)
	by localhost.localdomain (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id j0I700gm020993
	for [e-mail]; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 08:00:00 +0100
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 08:00:00 +0100
From: root <[e-mail]>
Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Time Server Check on Cerbere (172.16.9.200:123).
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

VHVlIEphbiAxOCAwODowMDowMCBDRVQgMjAwNQ0KVGltZSBzZXJ2ZXIgaXMgT0suDQoNCg0K
DQotLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0t
LQ0KQ2UgbWFpbCBuZSBjb250aWVudCBwYXMgZGUgVmlydXMgZOl0ZWN06SBwYXIgU3ltYW50
ZWMgTWFpbA0KU2VjdXJpdHku



---end of eml file dump ----

display as 
VHVlIEphbiAxOCAwODowMDowMCBDRVQgMjAwNQ0KVGltZSBzZXJ2ZXIgaXMgT0suDQoNCg0K
DQotLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0t
LQ0KQ2UgbWFpbCBuZSBjb250aWVudCBwYXMgZGUgVmlydXMgZOl0ZWN06SBwYXIgU3ltYW50
ZWMgTWFpbA0KU2VjdXJpdHku

in Mozilla mail windows
however it is correctly interpreted both on 
- "horde" web display while on a cyrus server
- outlook 
where it is seem as :


Tue Jan 18 08:00:00 CET 2005
Time server is OK.



-----------------------------------------------------
Ce mail ne contient pas de Virus détecté par Symantec Mail
Security.



  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  just have to get this kind of message
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
display as 
VHVlIEphbiAxOCAwODowMDowMCBDRVQgMjAwNQ0KVGltZSBzZXJ2ZXIgaXMgT0suDQoNCg0K
DQotLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0t
LQ0KQ2UgbWFpbCBuZSBjb250aWVudCBwYXMgZGUgVmlydXMgZOl0ZWN06SBwYXIgU3ltYW50
ZWMgTWFpbA0KU2VjdXJpdHku


Expected Results:  
should be displayed as
ue Jan 18 08:00:00 CET 2005
Time server is OK.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Reproduced with TB 1.0, Win2K.

This is apparently due to the missing Content-Type header.  If you add a header 
like:
  Content-Type: text/plain
the message displays as expected (at least if Western character encoding is the 
default for your configuration).

Per RFC 2045  <http://rfc.net/rfc2045.html#s5.2> , the default for Content-Type 
should be:
  Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

However, even if an explicit "us-ascii" is included in a Content-Type header 
added to the sample ISO-8859-1 message, it is displayed as expected.

xref bug 155537

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 230377 ***