[Dovecot] dovecot forward multipart problem

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Mar 6 20:00:30 EET 2007


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?
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