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>
---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ================ PM pane begins =============== ------------------ RFC822 Header Follows ------------------ Return-path: <buy.com_off...@enews.buy.com> Received: from smtpin133.mac.com ([10.150.68.133]) by ms152.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u3-17.01 64bit (built Jun 8 2010)) with ESMTP id <0l8400as977ut...@ms152.mac.com> for plov...@mac.com; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:16:42 -0700 (PDT) Original-recipient: rfc822;plov...@mac.com Received: from mta.enews.buy.com ([198.31.62.65]) by smtpin133.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u3-16.01 64bit (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) X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.0.10011,1.0.148,0.0.0000 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 ----------------------------------------------------------- ================ PM pane ends =============== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Fractals, 3d landscapes etc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- End of powermail-discuss Digest