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Id: 19817
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Queue: Mail-Mbox-MessageParser
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Broken in: 1.4003
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  Sat Jun 10 13:48:16 2006 Guest - Ticket created
Subject: Wrong assumption parsing Multipart/Mixed messages
Hello, We (sourceforge.net) use Mail-Mbox-MessageParser to parse Mailman mailboxes for frontend presentation. Recently had an issue when parser stumbled on one messages, ingoring mailbox content after it. Traced this to following: a message has Content-Type: Multipart/Mixed;, but actually doesn't have any MIME parts,only plain text content. But Mail- Mbox-MessageParser, once seeing myltipart messages, tries to search for *end* boundary within a mailbox - without bothering to check, if there was a beginning. So, it just slurps mailbox till the end and reports EOF. Our current fix is to disable multipart processing at all - after all, probability of fully well-formed "From " line in attachment is low, and ieven if it is, we hope that parser will recover from, while current situation of dead end is really bad. Hope that more correct fix will be implemented... Regards, Paul Sokolovsky, http://sourceforge.net/users/pfalcon SourceForge developer http://sourceforge.net
  Mon Jun 12 12:21:19 2006 david [...] coppit.org - Correspondence added
On Sat Jun 10 13:48:16 2006, guest wrote: Show quoted text
> Traced > this to following: a message has Content-Type: Multipart/Mixed;, but > actually doesn't have any MIME parts,only plain text content. But Mail- > Mbox-MessageParser, once seeing myltipart messages, tries to search > for *end* boundary within a mailbox - without bothering to check, if > there was a beginning. So, it just slurps mailbox till the end and > reports EOF.
Can you provide me with a sample mailbox? All I need is just the offending email and perhaps the one right after it. You can anonymize the mailbox using the utility provided in the distribution.
  Mon Jun 12 12:21:21 2006 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Sun Aug 09 13:19:43 2009 david [...] coppit.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'stalled'