Attachments not decoded when using DavMail
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Description
Steps to reproduce
- Setup DavMail to access Exchange Mails.
- Receive an E-Mail with a pdf attachment.
- Attachment is recognized as a pdf but mail app downloads an eml file.
Expected behavior
Mail app decodes the attachment and downloads a pdf file.
Actual behavior
Mail app downloads an eml file containing the base64 encoded pdf. If I send the same message to another imap account, the attachment is downloaded correctly.
Mail app version
1.13.6
Mailserver or service
Posteo to Exchange
Operating system
Debian
PHP engine version
PHP 8.0
Web server
Apache (supported)
Database
MariaDB
Additional info
Source of the DavMail message (shortened):
`
From: leArthurDent leArthurDent@imap1.de
To: leArthurDent leArthurDent@exchange.de
Cc:
Subject: Test with attachment
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2022 08:24:13 +0000
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=_2uho0oxLZMELMX2D26w5gRQ"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Return-Path: leArthurDent@imap1.de
MIME-Version: 1.0
--=_2uho0oxLZMELMX2D26w5gRQ
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
The attachment should be below.
--=_2uho0oxLZMELMX2D26w5gRQ
Content-Type: application/pdf; name="jasms.0c00467.pdf"
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="jasms.0c00467.pdf"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
(...)
--=_2uho0oxLZMELMX2D26w5gRQ--
`
Source of the other IMAP message (shortened):
`Subject: Test with attachment
From: leArthurDent leArthurDent@imap1.de
To: leArthurDent leArthurDent@imap2.de
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2022 08:35:39 +0000
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-QvVGVSEVGreoqqpY/CUn"
MIME-Version: 1.0
--=-QvVGVSEVGreoqqpY/CUn
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
The attachment should be below.
--=-QvVGVSEVGreoqqpY/CUn
Content-Type: application/pdf; name="jasms.0c00467.pdf"
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="jasms.0c00467.pdf"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
(...)
--=-QvVGVSEVGreoqqpY/CUn--
`
First I thought the issue would be due to mail app not being able to read embedded messages, but these sources look almost the same.
Fun Fact: If I send the message from imap1 to exchange, I cannot download the pdf. If I forward it back from exchange to imap1, I can.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the attachment download with DavMail and compare the raw MIME structure against the working IMAP message, focusing on the multipart and base64 sections shown in the report. Done means the PDF is decoded and downloaded as a PDF rather than as an EML file, with the behavior verified on the reported setup.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript, php
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100