Attachment processing issue
Reported by Benedikt | 2021-03-16 13:29:08 UTC
Hello Benny,
sometimes when sending a docx file attached to an email, recipients couldn't open it. I investigated a little bit and found out, that the file ending docx was supplemented by a quotation mark like this docx" (this sometimes also happens with pdf files). I'm pretty shure, that the file wasn't saved like this before adding it to an email. Furthermore I've noticed, that docx and pptx files has been renamed to mime-attachment.pptx or mime-attachment.docx.
I'm runnning MailMate 5776 with macOS 11.2.3 (20D91) and I'm using a mime certificate (sign by default).
Kind regards,
Benedikt
Comments and changes to this ticket
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benny 2021-03-16 14:33:47 UTC
Could you give me an example of a full filename? And exactly how you attach it (drag and drop from where or maybe copy/paste)?
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Benedikt 2021-03-16 14:48:15 UTC
Thank you for your quick reply.
I'm attaching via drag and drop usually. And all of the filenames contain surnames of other people, so I don't want to share them publicly. But I've noticed, that all of them contain german special characters like ä, ö, ü. If that doesn't help, I probably could write you an email. -
benny 2021-03-16 14:54:42 UTC
I seem to be able to reproduce the opposite using Excel, that is, missing double-quotes at the beginning of a line.
(You can use “Help > Send Feedback” to send me an example. You can probably replace a filename with something nonsensical and still be able to reproduce the issue.)
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Benedikt 2021-03-17 08:08:16 UTC
Just for the record: I've send you an email yesterday with some filenames causing the issue.
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benny 2021-03-17 10:13:39 UTC
- State changed from “new” to “accepted”
I did get them and I've identified the new bug, but it has also highlighted some (very old) known existing bugs/limitations in the generation/parsing of filenames for attachments. It might be best if I fix these instead of trying to make it work like it did before (which was just a bit less broken than it is now).
In any case, I'm aware that the current state is not usable.
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benny 2021-03-17 10:13:49 UTC
- State changed from “accepted” to “reproduced”
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Benedikt 2021-03-17 10:25:54 UTC
Thank your for your clarifications - please let me know, if I can help testing. Do have some hints to work around this bug in the meanwhile cause I've to rely on sending documents (e.g. renaming them)?
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benny 2021-03-18 07:26:20 UTC
- State changed from “reproduced” to “accepted”
I believe the next test release should make this work for you (r5778+) and it should make attachment name (and header) generation/decoding work better in general. There are still some things which can be improved in relation to the standards (RFC2231) which is why I've put this ticket into the accepted state. This is mainly related to better parsing of what other email clients might generate.
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Benedikt 2021-03-18 07:39:37 UTC
Thank you, Benny, that was quick! I've installed
r5778and did a quick test - so far no more renaming issues! -
benny 2022-04-28 17:27:37 UTC
- State changed from “accepted” to “fixcommitted”
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Mac OS X email client.
Benedikt