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#13329
24.2 post patch for #9521; Rmail forward does not correctly handle MIME messages containing "From " lines
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Reported by: mdl <at> alum.mit.edu
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 22:27:01 UTC
Severity: minor
Tags: moreinfo
Found in version 24.2
Done: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Your bug report
#13329: 24.2 post patch for #9521; Rmail forward does not correctly handle MIME messages containing "From " lines
which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.
The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 13329 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.
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13329: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=13329
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Contact help-debbugs <at> gnu.org with problems
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Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com> writes:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> From: Mark Lillibridge <mdl <at> alum.mit.edu>
>>> Cc: eliz <at> gnu.org, larsi <at> gnus.org, 13329 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>>> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2022 14:04:58 -0700
>>>
>>> > I was using Emacs Rmail, but not the pure emacs 28.1 -q because I
>>> > need to change settings to send email. Let me see if I can try a purer
>>> > reenactment.
>>>
>>> Ok, I sent myself a message with last line "From nothing" (pure text
>>> body); fetchmail produced the attached incoming_sample.gz file, which
>>> Rmail 'g' added to an empty Rmail file to produce the attached
>>> RMAIL.sample.gz. I did this using as pure an Rmail set up as I can with
>>> emacs 28.1. My sending/receiving goes through MIT email forwarding and
>>> uses Gmail as a receiving service.
>>>
>>> Both of these files have the proper mbox quoting, with a > before the
>>> >From in the body. If I switch to emacs 28.1 -q and open that Rmail
>>> file, I see the extra > and pressing 'f' includes it in the forwarded
>>> message. This shows both bugs (13328 and 13329).
>>>
>>> See if you can open RMAIL.sample and reproduce the bugs on your end.
>>> If so, something must differ between our email sending/receiving before
>>> rmail processes. If you can't reproduce the bugs given the Rmail file,
>>> I'm very confused.
>>
>> So, to summarize:
>>
>> . the problem happens only in emails that have MIME-Version: header
>> . the problem happens only in emails that have just the body, no
>> attachments
>> . the problem happens because rmail-show-mime doesn't remove the ">"
>> from ">From" when it shows the plan-text MIME content
>>
>> Is that correct?
>
> It seems like we need more information here in order to make any
> progress. Mark, could you answer the questions above?
>
> Thanks in advance.
More information was requested, but none was given within 4 months, so
I'm closing this bug.
If this is still an issue, please reply to this email (use "Reply to
all" in your email client) and we can reopen the bug report.
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[|'s added to quote From lines]
If you forward a Rmail message containing a MIME message with "From "
lines, the mbox escaping of From lines is not properly done.
Start emacs -q then evaluate the 9521 patch:
(require 'rmailmm)
(defun rmail-insert-mime-forwarded-message (forward-buffer)
"Insert the message in FORWARD-BUFFER as a forwarded message.
This is the usual value of `rmail-insert-mime-forwarded-message-function'."
(let ((message-buffer
(with-current-buffer forward-buffer
(if rmail-buffer-swapped
rmail-view-buffer
forward-buffer))))
(save-restriction
(narrow-to-region (point) (point))
(message-forward-make-body-mime message-buffer))))
Then run Rmail on the following mbox file (remove |'s at line start
first):
|From mdl Wed Oct 26 10:18:58 2011
|X-RMAIL-ATTRIBUTES: --EF----
|X-RMAIL-KEYWORDS: *
|X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED,
| RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.1
|From: Mark Lillibridge <mark.lillibridge <at> hp.com>
|To: <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
|Subject: 23.3; rmail-edit-current-message adds extra '>'s to Froms...
|Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 12:05:57 -0700
|Reply-To: <mark.lillibridge <at> hp.com>
|
|
|Start with a Rmail message (this one will do) not containing MIME that
|contains lines like the following:
|
|>From level 1
|>>From level 2
|>>>From level 3
|
|From mdl Tue Jan 1 12:27:17 2013
|Delivered-To: lillibridge <at> gmail.com
|Received: from gmail-pop.l.google.com [74.125.25.108]
| by foil.strangled.net with POP3 (fetchmail-6.3.18)
| for <mdl <at> localhost> (single-drop); Tue, 01 Jan 2013 12:27:17 -0800 (PST)
|Received: by 10.49.49.9 with SMTP id q9csp680843qen;
| Tue, 1 Jan 2013 12:27:08 -0800 (PST)
|X-Received: by 10.52.69.201 with SMTP id g9mr59443696vdu.98.1357072028236;
| Tue, 01 Jan 2013 12:27:08 -0800 (PST)
|Return-Path: <mark.lillibridge <at> hp.com>
|Received: from alum-mailsec-relay-12.mit.edu (ALUM-MAILSEC-RELAY-12.MIT.EDU. [18.7.68.32])
| by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o8si46143160vdv.77.2013.01.01.12.27.08
| (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER);
| Tue, 01 Jan 2013 12:27:08 -0800 (PST)
|Received: from alum-mailsec-scanner-7.mit.edu (ALUM-MAILSEC-SCANNER-7.MIT.EDU [18.7.68.19])
| by alum-mailsec-relay-12.mit.edu (8.13.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id r01KR7kv027035
| for <mdl <at> alum.mit.edu>; Tue, 1 Jan 2013 15:27:07 -0500
|Received: from madara.hpl.hp.com (madara.hpl.hp.com [192.6.19.124])
| by alum-mailsec-scanner-7.mit.edu (Symantec Messaging Gateway) with SMTP id A5.53.02235.B9643E05; Tue, 1 Jan 2013 15:27:07 -0500 (EST)
|Received: from postal.hpl.hp.com (postal.hpl.hp.com [15.25.115.25])
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| (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT)
| for <mdl <at> alum.mit.edu>; Tue, 1 Jan 2013 12:27:06 -0800
|Received: from build-debian-1.u.hpl.hp.com (build-debian-1.u.hpl.hp.com [15.8.240.3])
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| Tue, 1 Jan 2013 12:27:04 -0800
|From: Mark Lillibridge <mark.lillibridge <at> hp.com>
|To: mdl <at> alum.mit.edu
|Subject: test message containing From's in an attachment
|Reply-to: mark.lillibridge <at> hp.com
|Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 12:27:04 -0800
|Message-ID: <qmhip7gmyxz.fsf <at> build-debian-1.u.hpl.hp.com>
|MIME-Version: 1.0
|Content-Type: text/plain
|Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=froms.txt
|X-RMAIL-ATTRIBUTES: ------U-
|
|>From level 1
|>>From level 2
|>>>From level 3
|
|From mdl Tue Jan 1 13:04:30 2013
|Delivered-To: lillibridge <at> gmail.com
|Received: from gmail-pop.l.google.com [74.125.25.108]
| by foil.strangled.net with POP3 (fetchmail-6.3.18)
| for <mdl <at> localhost> (single-drop); Tue, 01 Jan 2013 13:04:30 -0800 (PST)
|Received: by 10.49.49.9 with SMTP id q9csp681694qen;
| Tue, 1 Jan 2013 13:04:13 -0800 (PST)
|X-Received: by 10.52.75.100 with SMTP id b4mr59369212vdw.52.1357074253041;
| Tue, 01 Jan 2013 13:04:13 -0800 (PST)
|Return-Path: <mark.lillibridge <at> hp.com>
|Received: from alum-mailsec-relay-12.mit.edu (ALUM-MAILSEC-RELAY-12.MIT.EDU. [18.7.68.32])
| by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id u1si24918746vdh.137.2013.01.01.13.04.12
| (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER);
| Tue, 01 Jan 2013 13:04:13 -0800 (PST)
|Received: from alum-mailsec-scanner-3.mit.edu (ALUM-MAILSEC-SCANNER-3.MIT.EDU [18.7.68.14])
| by alum-mailsec-relay-12.mit.edu (8.13.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id r01L47Pu030367
| for <mdl <at> alum.mit.edu>; Tue, 1 Jan 2013 16:04:12 -0500
|Authentication-Results: symauth.service.identifier
|Received: from madara.hpl.hp.com (madara.hpl.hp.com [192.6.19.124])
| by alum-mailsec-scanner-3.mit.edu (Symantec Messaging Gateway) with SMTP id E2.ED.02222.B4F43E05; Tue, 1 Jan 2013 16:04:12 -0500 (EST)
|Received: from masterns.hpl.hp.com (masterns.hpl.hp.com [15.0.48.4])
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| (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT)
| for <mdl <at> alum.mit.edu>; Tue, 1 Jan 2013 13:04:10 -0800
|Received: from build-debian-1.u.hpl.hp.com (build-debian-1.u.hpl.hp.com [15.8.240.3])
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| Tue, 1 Jan 2013 13:04:08 -0800
|From: Mark Lillibridge <mark.lillibridge <at> hp.com>
|To: mdl <at> alum.mit.edu
|Subject: test message containing From's in an attachment
|Reply-to: mark.lillibridge <at> hp.com
|Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 13:04:07 -0800
|Message-ID: <qmhhan0mx88.fsf <at> build-debian-1.u.hpl.hp.com>
|MIME-Version: 1.0
|Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-=-="
|X-RMAIL-ATTRIBUTES: --------
|
|--=-=-=
|Content-Type: text/plain
|
|
|body part
|
|
|--=-=-=
|Content-Type: text/plain
|Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=froms.txt
|
|>From level 1
|>>From level 2
|>>>From level 3
|
|--=-=-=--
|
The result should be 3 messages. If you forward any of the
messages, you'll see that the resulting message has the form:
|To:
|...
|
|
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|>From level 1
|>>From level 2
|>>>From level 3
|...
|
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Note that the From lines should be under mboxrd:
|From level 1
|>From level 2
|>>From level 3
See #13328 for related discussion of properly decoding From lines in
MIME messages.
- Mark
This bug report was last modified 1 year and 127 days ago.
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