Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1324 mails)

[Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 03 November 2008 00:34:42 Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On Sunday, 2008-11-02 at 14:09 -0800, John Andersen wrote:
> > > This is a known bug of gmail.
> > >
> > > Borrowing info from someone in the Spanish list, it happens because
> > > gmail encodes messages with utf-8 text as base64, and then opensusse
> > > list server (mlmmj) adds a text part with the unsusbscribe address. This
> > > combination can not be handled by GMail webmail and is well known.
> >
> > Hmmm, so the the attachment of his sig in utf8 seems to be problematic
> > only when relayed via Opensuse to users of the web interface.
> >
> > Those who pop/imap gmail have no problem.
> > Interesting.
>
> It is a problem if someone sends an email from gmail webmail's to the list
> and then it is also seen on the webmail. If you use something else to view
> the email (ie, you download it via imap or pop3) then there is no problem,
> which means that the bug is in the webmail viewer.
>
> It is not his attachment that causes the problem. His sig triggers gmail
> encoding the email in utf and base64. So far so good. But then the list
> server adds a text to the bottom, as plain text. You can see this by
> looking at the source email with "less", for instance.
>
> It goes like this:
>
> ********************
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> Content-Disposition: inline
> References: <490BFCEA.60807@xxxxxxx>
> <200811010851.32549.Jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: "OS-en" <opensuse@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Status: RO
> X-Status:
> X-Keywords:
> X-UID: 1
>
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> h
> eSAzMSBPY3RvYmVyIDIwMDggMjM6NTM6MzAgSm9lIE1vcnJpcyB3cm90ZToKPj4gVGhpcyBpcyB
> q
> dXN0IGEgaGVhZHMgdXAuICBJIHdhcyBqdXN0IHRyeWluZyBhZ2FpbiB0byBmaW5kIHRoZSBjYXV
> z ...
> L2dpYmJlcmlzaC5jby5pbArXkC3XkS3Xki3Xky3XlC3XlS3Xli3Xly3XmC3XmS3Xmi3Xmy3XnC3
> X
> nS3Xni3Xny3XoC3XoS3Xoi3Xoy3XpC3XpS3Xpi3Xpy3XqC3XqS3XqgoKw6Qtw7Ytw7wtw58tw4Q
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>
> It is this combination of three factors that triggers the problem. Good
> and proven mail clients have no problem, but gmail webmail's has.
>
> So gmail webmail's users have to live with this, and hope that gmail
> solves it.
>
> My recomendation is to open gmail, click help, click "reading", then
> "Messages aren't displaying properly", then to "Review our known issues
> page", there to "Composing and Reading Mail", then to the bottom, at
> "Don't see your issue listed above?", select the topic "reading email" or
> "encoding", where you reach the "Reporting a new issue" page. And go
> ahead, report it.
>
> I just did.
>
> If more people report it, they may try to solve it.
I normally read in kmail and have seen no problem, so after I read this I went 
to firefox and read the message in gmail's web interface.  Not only could I 
read Dotan's message, but the signature also displays correctly.
Anne