That is indeed a big in the mail gem. I contributed a patch that is a
partial fix.

What is essential is that you only convert headers not the binary
attachment as that can corrupt images.

On Mon, Feb 11, 2019, 4:11 PM sebb <[email protected] wrote:

> It looks as though the mail gem does try to convert the input to CRLF
> before parsing.
> However, it only does this if the input is ASCII-only (*).
>
> Whilst this is the best approach, I think we can ignore that check and
> just convert to CRLF.
> [It may cause a very occasional glitch, but any such should be obvious.]
>
> It explains why the original email failed to parse: there are several
> non-ASCII chars in it.
> These have been converted to quoted-printable by the version you
> forwarded, thus allowing the parse to complete OK.
>
> I'll commit a fix shortly.
>
> S.
> (*) This applies to binary data, which is all that we know about the
> input at this point.
>
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 at 18:55, sebb <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Seems to be an issue with the parser not handling certain messages
> > which have LF-only line terminators.
> >
> > I tried converting the mail file to CRLF and reparsing, and the
> > attachment appeared.
> >
> > AFAICT all messages are being stored as LF-only, and I don't know why
> > this only affects some mails.
> > The one in question is quite complicated with various quoted mails
> > before the attachment; that might have affected parsing.
> >
> > The copy of the mail sent to my GMail account appears to have CRLF
> > line terminators, yet the copies on minotaur and mbox-vm are LF-only.
> > Perhaps GMail auto-converts the mail?
> > Not sure what is happening here.
> >
> > On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 at 17:20, sebb <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > The immediate reason is that the parsed message does not have any
> > > attachments listed in the summary yml file, so does not show up in the
> > > workbench.
> > >
> > > I will look further into why the parsing did not see the attachment.
> > >
> > > S.
> > > On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 at 17:11, sebb <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I'll take a look
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 at 16:27, Craig Russell <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > This seems to be happening more frequently: an ICLA shows up in
> secretary mail inbox but does not appear in workbench.
> > > > >
> > > > > If I forward the message to secretary, it then appears in
> workbench.
> > > > >
> > > > > Without violating PII, I cannot forward the message directly. But
> this is the message that was received this AM and never made it to
> workbench:
> > > > >
> > > > > From: Olivier Coutu
> > > > > Date: 6:10 AM PST
> > > > > Subject: Fwd: Re: Patch to reduce lint time
> > > > >
> > > > > Any ideas?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > >
> > > > > Craig
> > > > >
> > > > > Craig L Russell
> > > > > Secretary, Apache Software Foundation
> > > > > [email protected] http://db.apache.org/jdo
> > > > >
>

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