Issue 2099: darcs send 2.7+ attachments are invisible in thunderbird 3.1.12 - Darcs bug tracker

Title	darcs send 2.7+ attachments are invisible in thunderbird 3.1.12
Priority	bug	Status	resolved
Milestone	2.8.0	Resolved in	2.8.0
Superseder		Nosy List	galbolle, kerneis
Assigned To	kerneis	Topics

Created on 2011-08-31.13:39:59 by galbolle, last changed 2011-09-06.16:04:21 by noreply.

Messages
msg14700 (view)	Author: galbolle	Date: 2011-08-31.13:39:58
It looks like thunderbird/icedove does not know what to do with multipart/alternative for attachments (as opposed to body). As a result, any mail sent with darcs 2.7 is missing its attachment when read in thunderbird. I don't think it's technically our bug, as we're arguably within the limits of the mime specification, but I don't think there's much chance to get mozilla to do something about this.
msg14703 (view)	Author: kerneis	Date: 2011-08-31.15:48:37
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 01:39:59PM +0000, Florent Becker wrote: > It looks like thunderbird/icedove does not know what to do with > multipart/alternative for attachments (as opposed to body). As a result, The roundcube webmail is confused as well. (Squirrelmail and mutt handle it correctly, OTOH.) > any mail sent with darcs 2.7 is missing its attachment when read in > thunderbird. I don't think it's technically our bug, as we're arguably > within the limits of the mime specification, but I don't think there's > much chance to get mozilla to do something about this. I can make a patch, but what would you suggest? The best thing is probably to drop the alternative part, and keep two separate attachements, giving up semantics for the sake of interoperability. Any other idea? Best, -- Gabriel
msg14704 (view)	Author: kerneis	Date: 2011-08-31.15:59:56
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 04:36:07PM +0200, Florent Becker wrote: > That was my first idea too. Otherwise, just put the patch preview into > the body and leave the patch itself as the only attachement, which would > prevent people from saving and trying to darcs apply the preview. This would raise even more encoding issues (the patch encoding might be different from the mail content). Best, -- Gabriel
msg14706 (view)	Author: kerneis	Date: 2011-08-31.17:28:52
Proposed patch: patch671
msg14714 (view)	Author: noreply	Date: 2011-09-05.20:59:21
The following patch sent by Gabriel Kerneis <kerneis@pps.jussieu.fr> updated issue issue2099 with status=has-patch * resolve issue2099: inline patch preview Ignore-this: 76a12ad951856868f9eb511163ff0582
msg14717 (view)	Author: noreply	Date: 2011-09-06.16:04:21
The following patch sent by Gabriel Kerneis <kerneis@pps.jussieu.fr> updated issue issue2099 with status=resolved;resolvedin=2.8.0 HEAD * resolve issue2099: inline patch preview Ignore-this: 76a12ad951856868f9eb511163ff0582

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2011-08-31 13:39:59	galbolle	create
2011-08-31 15:48:38	kerneis	set	messages: + msg14703
2011-08-31 15:59:57	kerneis	set	messages: + msg14704
2011-08-31 17:28:53	kerneis	set	status: unknown -> has-patch messages: + msg14706
2011-09-05 20:59:22	noreply	set	messages: + msg14714
2011-09-06 16:04:21	noreply	set	status: has-patch -> resolved messages: + msg14717 resolvedin: 2.8.0