Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (156 mails)

[John King <johnmking_uk@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 09 March 2008 19:23:58 David Herman wrote:
> On Sunday 09 March 2008, John King wrote:
> > Ever since updating kontact via yast this morning I have run into
> > problems sending jpg attachments via the gmail smtp server or to
> > an account on gmail.
> >
> > If sending via the gmail smtp server, the message reaches 99% and
> > then I get an error message:
> >
> > "Sending failed.
> > Could not write file. The message content was not accepted.
> > The server responded ' 5.7.0 Illegal attachment"
> >
> > If sending to the gmail account, the message is bounced and I
> > receive the following error message from my ISP:
> >
> > "  SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data:
> >     host gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com [66.249.93.114]:
> >     552 5.7.0 Illegal Attachment p32si8007182ugc.26"
> >
> > I can send the same jpg attachments using thunderbird both via
> > the gmail smtp server and to the gmail account.
> >
> > I have tried with several jpg files with no success with kmail.
> >
> > Other attachments do not seem to be affected - I've sent pdf,
> > tif, png and odt ones with no problems
> >
> > Another thing I have noticed is that if I store the message in
> > the draft folder and click on the jpg attachment to view it (in
> > my default gwenview) the image will not appear.
> >
> > My kmail is listed as:
> > Kmail 1.9.9 (Using KDE 3.5.9 "release 51.2" opensUSE)
> > and I'm running opensuse 10.3.
>
> I can confirm the problem. I sent a jpg attachment from my gmail
> account to the same gmail account and cc'd the mail to my comcast
> account.
>
> gmail sent a status notification that said "Delivery to the
> following recipients failed permanently" no other details.
>
> The mail was delivered to the comcast account but the attachment was
> corrupt (was not opened by my default viewer "display")
>
>
> I then tried sending the attachment through comcast (rather than via
> gmail) to both accounts.
>
> Same result. It seems that gmail is actually scanning the attachment
> and not allowing the corrupt file through while my comcast account
> will let the file past but the jpg attachment is being corrupted
> (maybe when it is being base 64 encoded?)
>
> I also tried sending other attachments  (png, pdf, bin). Although
> they sent without problems the received attachments were
> un-openable or inconsistant at best (might open w/ one program but
> not another and if it did open the file was still corrupted)

I can confirm that the non-jpg attachments I sent earlier and thought they had 
been processed satisfactorily were in fact corrupted.  I can't open any of 
them with the default applications.



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regards

John
johnmking_uk@xxxxxxxxxxx

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