Bugs item #1433666, was opened at 2006-02-17 08:02 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by msapiro You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=1433666...

Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: nntp/news Group: 2.1 (stable) Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Dâniel Fraga (danielfraga) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: News to mail gateway: Outlook Express broke uuenc.attachment

Initial Comment: When someone posts on my nntp server a message with an uuencoded attachment using Outlook Express, the message appears broken in mailman.

For example:

Original message: news://news.abusar.org/drq50u$gmp$2@servicos.netuno.com.br

Mailman message (corrupted):

http://core.abusar.org/pipermail/u-br.lazer.humor/2006-February/000346.html?...

I think the problem is related to how mailman handles the end of lines...

Thank you.

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Comment By: Mark Sapiro (msapiro)

Date: 2006-02-17 17:22

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Are you talking only of archived messages or individual received messages as well?

In the case of the archived message you point to, the problem is that you have configured the archiver to obscure email addresses so that every '@' character in the uuencoded data is rewritten as ' em '.

The issue is compounded by Outlook Express, because when Outlook Express sends a uuencoded attachment, it does not actually encapsulate the uuencoded attachment in a separate MIME part. If it did, Scrubber would store it separately and put a link to it in the archived message, but in the Outlook Express case, the 'attachment' is not an attachment at all, but rather just a uuencoded file in the body of the message. Thus, it is just more text subject to munging by email address obscuring.

I was going to close this report with the above explanation, but I am waiting to hear if you also have a problem with individual messages or digests. I know my explanation is correct for the archives because I took the uuencoded data from your archive page and replaced all the ' em ' with '@', and I was then able to uudecode the file into a valid jpeg.

So, do you have a problem with messages or digests from the list, and if so, can you provide an example message for analysis?

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