Bug 143774

Summary: kmail: encoding problems
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Tanja Roth <taroth>
Component: KDEAssignee: Will Stephenson <wstephenson>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P4 - Low    
Version: Final   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: i586   
OS: SuSE Linux 10.0   
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Found By: Documentation Services Priority:
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Marketing QA Status: --- IT Deployment: ---
Attachments: copied version of talk-digest mail

Description Tanja Roth 2006-01-18 14:50:51 UTC
My problem is related to BUG #142548. When I receive multipart mails (for example, digests from mailing lists, where mails with various charsets [iso, utf-8] are contained), these are not displayed correctly. When I set the encoding in the View menu to "Automatic", mails with the charset ISO-8859-15 are not displayed correctly, if I change to encoding to UTF-8, however, mails with the charset=utf-8 are not displayed correctly. The workaround suggested in bug #142548 does not help in my case.
Comment 1 Dirk Mueller 2006-03-01 16:24:44 UTC
are those digets generated via mime multiparts ? I doubt so. can you copy one of those mails you have problems with into a new mbox folder and then attach it to this bugreport?

Comment 2 Tanja Roth 2006-03-30 11:53:00 UTC
Created attachment 75736 [details]
copied version of talk-digest mail
Comment 3 Tanja Roth 2006-03-30 12:07:27 UTC
I can't answer your first question but I did as you proposed and copied one of the digest mails in an mbox-folder and attached it. Hope that helps.
Comment 4 Will Stephenson 2006-03-30 13:58:58 UTC
It's no mime-multipart message - it's a text/plain, not multipart/mixed, says it contains ascii, individual messages are actually encoded in different ways and the original header is shown to indicate the encoding.  If it was multipart mixed, each part would indicate its encoding in the mime headers and kmail would be able to display correctly.

To fix it, either we enhance Kmail to munge these digests into multipart/mime, or enhance the mailing list manager to output multipart/mime.  /me shrugs.
Comment 5 Stephan Kulow 2006-06-01 15:36:28 UTC
WONTFIX?
Comment 6 Stephan Kulow 2006-09-07 14:48:39 UTC
ok then. No answer is an answer as well.