[Dovecot] dovecot forward multipart problem

Samuel HAMEAU samuel.hameau at idealx.com
Mon Apr 2 23:01:44 EEST 2007


Timo Sirainen a écrit :
> On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 19:17 +0100, Samuel HAMEAU wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I experience problems everytime i forward a mail (basically, when 
>> forwarding an email containing an attachement).
>> I'm using thunderbird (it does the same with outlook clients) with the 
>> forward parameter "as attachement" instead of "inline". (Using the 
>> inline parameters works fine).
>> When i forward a mail with attachements (eg a jpeg file), the 
>> attachements file is displayed in base64 instead, and is impossible to 
>> detach/save.
>>
>> I'm using dovecot 1.0.rc22-1 (debian package) on debian etch, x86 SMP 
>> box with maildir format on a ext3 partition.
>> I'm using postfix currently 2.3.4-3, i have tried different version of 
>> dovecot (from rc16 i think) and postfix (from 2.2.?) and i suspect the 
>> deliver to be the origin of the problem.
>>     
>
> You should find out what exactly gets changed. Find the mail from "Sent
> messages" mailbox and compare it to the one in the destination mailbox.
> What is different? Or is it already broken in the "Sent messages" too?
>
>   
>> I think it is the same problem than here 
>> http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2006-July/014786.html 
>>     
>
> That bug was already fixed, so it can't be the same.
>
>   
>> , my "From" headers are badly duplicated.
>>     
>
> What do you mean by this?
>   
Thanks you for your answer.

Here is as attachement a diff of two maildir files : the one in the sent 
folder, and the one received in an external domain.
I believe a big part of the problem is located in these lines of the 
attached file.

--- BEGIN ---

25c52,53

< From original_sender_of_forwarded_mail at domain.com  Mon Mar 19 19:57:35 2007

---

> 

> >From original_sender_of_forwarded_mail at domain.com  Mon Mar 19 19:57:35 2007

96d123

< 

--- END ---



Do you think dovecot is altering the mail, or the problem is located 
inside our smtp server ?
(this problem happen with any remote domain.)


Regards,
Samuel HAMEAU
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