71189 - [RFE] Ability to Decode message/partial Messages

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: MIME, enhancement)

Description

[Nisse]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.7 [en] (Win98; U)
BuildID:    Don't know (Mozilla 8.0)

No feature for decoding MIME-encoded Multipart Email Messages sent from f.e. 
Outlook Express.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Send a divided mail from Outlook Express
2. Open mozilla
3. Try to open the attachment

Actual Results:  Can't do it.

Expected Results:  Either shown all the emails as one, or hava a feuture that 
can save the attachment.

Comment 1

[Keyser Sose]

Related to bug 64680

Comment 2

[Todd Pederzani]

Bug 60981 seems to be the Newsgroup equivalent of this bug.  The fix might be
related.

Comment 3

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

Can somebody give me a sample test message that demonstrates the problem. Thanks

Comment 4

[Todd Pederzani]

Attachment: Zipped Local Folder containing two segmented emails sent by Outlook Express

I zipped up one of the DLLs from Mozilla and sent it to myself via Outlook
Express... To get it to create segmented emails, you must go to Tools |
Accounts | (your email account) | Advanced | "Break apart messages longer than
___ kb" (the control accepts 16 - 16,000 kb).  -- Purely as a FYI in case you
have OE and need more testcases.

If you need more, I can create more.

I'm not sure how OE reacts when it receives one of these attachments... whether
it merges them back into the original or whatnot - Mozilla is my mail client.

Comment 5

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

This message use a content type = message/partial which Mozilla does not
support. This kind of content-type is defined in rfc2046

Comment 6

[Klem]

Shouldn't this bugs "Hardware" and "OS" be set to "all"?

<spam type="rant">
To me this is a very important deficiency... I'd love to switch over to Mozilla
Mail, particularly for the newly implemented Bayesian junkmail filtering. Like
most people however, I send and receive the occasional RFC2046 multipart message
so I *must* use a client which handles this format, as most other clients do.
Isn't an email client's inability to open RFC standard email of greater severity
than "enhancement"?

I am also worried about this bugs Status Whiteboard OE designation... this isn't
an incompatibility with OE it is an incompatibility with the RFC standard as
implemented by most modern clients including OE, Pegasus, The Bat, Becky! Mail,
etc..
Reluctantly sticking with Becky! http://www.rimarts.co.jp/ for the time being.

PS Before anyone says it... If I was a sufficiently competent programmer I
*would* write a patch! I would however be happy to supply multipart messages
created by some of the other email apps if that would help anyone.
Please forgive the rant - just worried that what I concider to be an important
bug is rotting 0;-)
</spam>

Comment 7

[Alexander Myodov]

I'm just another Mozilla user, and want to again draw attention to this bug 
(cause I was just affected with it), raised about an year ago, still not fixed, 
and really needed for Mozilla Mail to be fully compliant to MIME and allow 
Mozilla's users to at least read message/partial messages. 
Again: it looks like affecting all OSes (cannot check it on any Unix, but my 
Windows XP is affected as well as Windows NT). It shouldn't be an "enhancement", 
cause it's needed for Mozilla Mail to be fully RFC-compliant, and moreover - for 
Mozilla users to be at least able to read fully RFC-compliant message (whose 
only fault to be drawn by Mozilla Mail is that it is message/partial) - I expect 
it to have at least "normal" severity, but would agree that it looks like having 
"major" severity (cause because of this, Mozilla users cannot read RFC-compliant 
messages at all).

Comment 8

[Majki]

> I'm not sure how OE reacts when it receives one of these attachments... whether
> it merges them back into the original or whatnot - Mozilla is my mail client.

When OE download all parts of message, merges it together and create new
message, and than moves splitted messages to trash can.

Comment 9

[Chris Miles]

I would really like to be able to simply re-join message/partial messages. These
are often generated in a non-technical environment and so reflect poorly on the
product.

Comment 10

[kodak]

RFC material, but not supported by Mozilla mail. It is very annoying. Why do we
still call this bug assigned?!?!?

Comment 11

[credmann]

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2046.html

Comment 12

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

*** Bug 244603 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 321288 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14

[Jean-Michel Reghem]

http://ed.mullen.home.comcast.net/Mozilla/moz_combine.html

--> some explanation for decoding multipart message in TB/Mozilla Suite using uudeview or yenc32