Fwd: [opensuse] unreadable email

22 Jan 2008

      Content-Type: text/plain

...that's your problem.  I had the same issue when I moved email from
Exchange/Outlook to Evolution.

I wrote instructions in the Evolution list server to fix it, you could
adapt these:

Note that I'm working w/ local files in ~/.evolution/mail/local.  The
2005-6 file is the name of my Evolution folder, but that directory has
many files w/ that in the name:

2005-6
2005-6.ev-summary
2005-6.ev-summary-meta
2005-6.ibex.index
2005-6.cmeta
2005-6.ibex.index.data

1) Use evolution to search for all email that included "<!DOCTYPE", then
2) Move all resulting messages to a temporary folder, I'm using 2005-6
as my temporary folder name in this case.
3) Stop evolution (look in the process queue with ps auxww | grep evo"
to assure all is stopped),
4) Cd to ~/.evolution/mail/local,
5) Backup all the "2005-6*" files before proceeding.
6) Delete all "2005-6.*" files except for "2005-6" itself, since
Evolution will auto-recreate
the rest.
7) Run sed on that file (2005-6), output to another file (2005-6.2):

    sed 's,Content-Type: text/plain,Content-Type: text/html,g' \
             <2005-6 >2005-6.2

8) Move 2005-6.2 to 2005-6
9) Restart evolution.
10) In Evolution, open the temporary folder (may take awhile to reindex),
11) Selected all messages,
12) Moved those messages back to the inbox,
13) Deleted the temp folder.

You might want to assure that the "Content Type" is the problem before
running the "sed", and assure that the file looks good (has the
content type changed) after running the "sed".  These can both be done
with:

  grep Content-Type 2005.6

Chris
On Jan 22, 2008 12:36 PM, Russ Fineman <russbucket@nwi.net> wrote:
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On Tue January 22 2008 01:25:44 pm Russ Fineman wrote:
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Suse 10.2, kmail 1.9.6
<snip>
Hi Russ,
This sounds very odd. I've never received an e-mail that KMail/Kontact was
unable to open or display. I've received *attachments* in proprietary
formats that are problematical, though. What does the source look like?
i.e. View --> View Source?
regards,
Carl
</snip>
They document can be viewed by kmail, it is not an attachment. It looks like
On Tuesday 22 January 2008 11:05:35 am Carl Hartung wrote:
html source:
X-UID:
Status: R
X-Status: NC
X-KMail-EncryptionState:
X-KMail-SignatureState:
X-KMail-MDN-Sent:
----=76063C2AEF224AF7B39B_D75A_F09D_6686
Content-Type: text/plain;charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>citimortgage�</title>
Looks like html but changing setting to allow html still does not display
html, displays source. as document.  when I do save as the filter is *.mbox
and the check box automatically select file name extension (.mbox) is
checked.
Kmail used to display a waring and ask if I wanted to open an html document. I
do not get this with this document.
Thanks for responding and let me know if there is anything else I can check or
provide.
--
Russ
Linux register user 441463
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