On 26Dec2015 15:20, Fred Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
This problem has been going on for some time, but it has lately become an
irritant:
some emails in which photos or other images are sent arrive here with no
such item, neither attached, nor inline.
I haven't been able to reproduce it by sending myself emails from my office,
or gmail, etc, so I don't know what is funny about those emails.
If I ask the sender to resend that mail to my gmail (or office) account, the
image is there.
Is this reliable? You can get the sender to send the message to gmail and it is
intact, and you can ask them to send it again to your mutt address and it is
always lacking the attachments? I mean here that the behaviour is always the
same for a given message - good at gmail and bad on initial receipt in mutt and
also bad again on a resend to your mutt address.
I am using milter to run clamav on incoming and outgoing emails but that is a
rather recent addition (loast 6 months, more or less) and the problem has
long-preceded that change.
Can you outline your mail receipt process? (Eg fetchmail -> procmail -> folder
or suchlike?)
I'm using Mutt 1.5.21 on Centos-7.
One way to eliminate (or confirm) mutt might be to inspect the actual message
file with "less" or something - is it bad in the mail folder, before mutt goes
anywhere near it?
Have you inspected the message headers of a bad message? If the attachments are
being stripped by something this action is often noted with a header line.
Final thought: might these messages simply have an href to some _external_
image, by URL? Then it wouldn't be an attachement, and gmail might still show
it inline.
Have you an example message you're prepared to share with the list?
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <[email protected]>
