[7877] in SIPB bug reports
pine refiling bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laura Baldwin)
Mon Nov 19 15:42:15 2001
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 15:42:11 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <200111192042.PAA21699@geskekelud.mit.edu>
From: Laura Baldwin <boojum@MIT.EDU>
To: bug-sipb@mit.edu
Short version:
Refiling a particular sort of base64 encoded message in pine
causes the header to become repeated. This means anything trying to
decode base64 is no longer able to.
Long version:
I receive a piece of mail from a particular sender with base64
encoding, character set utf-8. If I incorporate it, nmh show is able
to display it properly. Netscape is able to display it properly.
Pine is also able to display it properly, *in my INBOX folder*, albeit
with the following warning:
[ The following text is in the "utf-8" character set. ]
[ Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set. ]
[ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ]
If I refile this message via pine, I get a transient warning:
[Note: deleted message parts NOT included in saved copy]
The refiled message is no longer readable by any mail client I've
tried. Pine says
[Error: Formatting error: Internal base64 decoder error]
If I refile it to #mh/inbox, nmh show says
mhshow: invalid BASE64 encoding -- continuing
(content text/plain in message 84)
a whole bunch of times. Netscape under IMAP refiles it fine, so I
think it's a Pine glitch rather than a mail-server-IMAP glitch.
I've placed copies of a sample message before and after filing, in
/mit/boojum/Pine-Bug. It looks like the header is being duplicated,
and since the header isn't *in* base64, the decoder bails.
If I refile it multiple times from place to place, the headers
continue to multiply.
-Laura
