Freron MailMate

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  benny May 27th, 2020 @ 02:05 PM

  • State changed from “new” to “accepted”

  A workaround does not exist, but I guess I could add one. The emails are not formatted correctly, but MailMate already has a gazillion similar workarounds :-)

  If possible, could you send me an example using “Help > Send Feedback” (drag'n'drop the example email into the message) and then I'll look into it. Do you have any idea how these emails came to be like this? (I have not had this issue reported before.)

  (After the fix, you will likely have to refetch all of these emails to make the database/search work properly.)

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  Franco Groppi May 27th, 2020 @ 05:43 PM

  Hi,
  I have solved the issue exporting out of MailMate the messages (about a thousand exported locally), deleting the messages from mailboxes, running a script that removes the first blank line from each locally exported message, and reimporting the message into MailMate and the relative mailboxes.

  I have several e-mail account since over 20 years, so these (very old) messages maybe where there from a long time but I have never “seen” them as a problem until I moved to MailMate.

  Actually the re-imported messages look perfectly and also the attachments are fully available.

  Apple Mail doesn’t seem to have problem managing wrong formatted messages like these (it has other numerous issue as well… ;-) )

  Thanks, best regards.
  Franco Groppi

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  benny May 27th, 2020 @ 06:24 PM

  • State changed from “accepted” to “resolved”

  Thanks for the update. I'll postpone adding a workaround for this kind of issue until someone else reports the problem. Emails should not start with a blank line since it actually means that the message has no headers and that the entire body is plain text. Therefore, a workaround is also kind of like adding a bug :-)

  Let me know if you figure out how they came to be, e.g., if new ones show up.