powermail-discuss Digest #2878 - Thursday, September 2, 2010

  mime msg doesn't show body
          by "Peter Lovell" <plov...@mac.com>
  Re: mime msg doesn't show body
          by "Charles Watts-Jones" <charle...@pobox.com>
  Re: mime msg doesn't show body
          by "Beatrix Willius" <bwill...@gmx.de>


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Subject: mime msg doesn't show body
From: "Peter Lovell" <plov...@mac.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:00:56 -0400

Hi all,

I'm trying to track down an issue that started recently.

A company I deal with (buy.com) sends special-offer email with their
deals of the week. Until recently, they had text part (set as my
default) and an html part that showed if I clicked the little icon at
the bottom of the mail browser ("Show HTML", "Show plain text..." etc)

But for about two weeks now nothing shows. No plain text, no html, and
no icon when that message is selected. The message shows fine in Apple's Mail.

Now just today I received one from a different company (financial
institution) with the same characteristic. Looking at the header, which
is all I can see after all, I notice that they're both from
flonetwork.com (an emailer company, acquired by Doubleclick and now part
of Google).

In the older messages that displayed OK there was this indicator for
content ...

MIME-version: 1.0
Content-type: multipart/alternative;
 boundary="Boundary_(ID_n780nyha+GKpAsj+z2dGlQ)"

The new messages have a different specification, shown in context below
with the initial part of the text

========= start snippet ============
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-type: multipart/alternative;
 boundary*0=----000000000000000000000000000000000000;
 boundary*1=000000000000000000000000000

------000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Buy.com Weekly Deals
http://enews.buy.com/cgi-bin5/DM/y/mxir0Mgssr0RAs0Cmyx0HG
========= end snippet ============

I'm not familiar with rules for MIME but I notice that now there are two
boundary specifications and neither is in quotes. The two, put together,
are the same as the boundary (with two extra hyphens "-" before the
first and intermediate ones, and after the final one).

Does anyone have any idea what's broken here??


Thanks.....Peter





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Return-path: <buy.com_off...@enews.buy.com>
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Original-recipient: rfc822;plov...@mac.com
Received: from mta.enews.buy.com ([198.31.62.65])
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 (built May 20 2010)) with ESMTP id <0l8400iwp75s6...@smtpin133.mac.com> for
 plov...@mac.com (ORCPT plov...@mac.com); Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:16:42
-0700 (PDT)
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 definitions=2010-09-02_05:2010-09-02,2010-09-01,1970-01-01 signatures=0
X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0
 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=100 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0
 reason=mlx engine=6.0.2-1004200000 definitions=main-1009020041
Return-path: <buy.com_off...@enews.buy.com>
DomainKey-Signature: q=dns; a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws;        s=dk; d=enews.buy.com;
        h=Received:Date:Message-Id:From:Reply-To:To:Subject:MIME-
Version:Content-Type;
        b=RGMszuoJvjvPsHptnysbvJaFY4w8G85gIHj1RGmgdFroy6FGKb9+996bed6CfbGJ
        ZMb8zHjDB7y1wzjxYqefRbhRy7s2UnGjzW+kJ6+WvQz+Jz//MG5yM0qONxvu8hYE
Received: from [10.21.250.223] ([10.21.250.223:1300] helo=CORE5PUMPER1)
        by pcomtanode15 (envelope-from <buy.com_off...@enews.buy.com>)
        (ecelerity 2.2.2.45 r(34222M)) with ESMTP       id 
C1/10-13910-8897F7C4; Thu,
 02 Sep 2010 06:16:41 -0400
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:16:40 -0400 (EDT)
Message-id: <kilauea178483-61244-162593083-3-1...@flonetwork.com>
From: "Buy.com Deals" <buy.com_off...@enews.buy.com>
Reply-to: "Buy.com Deals "
 <buy.com_offers-ctg0aeb62aacxezqtmhzhngh66mia...@enews.buy.com>
To: plov...@mac.com
Subject: Samsung
 20" LCD Monitor $103.00, Wii Fit Charging Stand w/ Battery Pack $14.99,
 Motorola Bluetooth Headset $28.49, Kodak 12.3MP Camera $75.99,..
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-type: multipart/alternative;
 boundary*0=----000000000000000000000000000000000000;
 boundary*1=000000000000000000000000000
-----------------------------------------------------------

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Subject: Re: mime msg doesn't show body
From: "Charles Watts-Jones" <charle...@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 19:08:39 +0200

On 2 September Peter Lovell wrote:

> I'm trying to track down an issue that started recently.

I'm afraid that I can't offer a solution. I have been having this
problem for a while now, generally the message in question does not
offer a 'View message in web browser' alternative. If I want to read
them, I'm forced to do so on line. I can confirm that the mime header
usually is like this:

MIME-version: 1.0
Content-type: multipart/alternative;
 boundary*0=----000000000000000000000000000000000000;
 boundary*1=000000000000000000000000000

I hope CTM is watching and can offer a solution.

-- Charles



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Subject: Re: mime msg doesn't show body
From: "Beatrix Willius" <bwill...@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 19:44:58 +0200

Hi Peter,

the boundary is encoded according to RFC2231. So far I haven't seen this for 
boundaries. Most likely, Powermail doesn't support 2231 in boundaries. And I 
will check this for my own application.

Am 02.09.2010 um 14:00 schrieb Peter Lovell:
> 
> ========= start snippet ============
> MIME-version: 1.0
> Content-type: multipart/alternative;
> boundary*0=----000000000000000000000000000000000000;
> boundary*1=000000000000000000000000000
> 
> ------000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> 
> Buy.com Weekly Deals
> http://enews.buy.com/cgi-bin5/DM/y/mxir0Mgssr0RAs0Cmyx0HG

Mit freundlichen Grüßen/Regards

Trixi Willius

http://www.mothsoftware.com
Mail Archiver X: archive, clean and search email
http://www.beatrixwillius.de
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