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Rick McGuire updated JAMES-846:
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Attachment: remotedeliver.patch
Recommended patch for this error. In addition to setting the content, this
only adjusts the transfer encoding if the current encoding is 8bit.
> RemoteDelivery convertTo7Bit() can corrupt message content.
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> Key: JAMES-846
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JAMES-846
> Project: James
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Rick McGuire
> Attachments: remotedeliver.patch
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> This is something I ran into while fixing the Geronimo javamail bugs, and
> noticed that the RemoteDelivery code has the same problem. In the
> convertTo7Bit() method, the transfer encoding is unconditionally set to
> either quoted-printable or base64 depending on the MIME type. This can make
> the content invalid when transmitted as mail
> To understand the reason, you need to understand how MimeMessage holds the
> content internally. The content can exist in one of two forms: 1) The real
> content object, or 2) the content encoded as a byte array. In case 1), the
> Content-Transfer-Encoding indicates how the content WILL BE encoded when
> written to a stream. In case 2), the Content-Transfer-Encoding indicates
> how the content IS encoded in the byte array. In the first case, setting the
> transfer encoding works ok. In the second case, it's changing how the
> already encoded information will be interpreted. I've confirmed this to be
> the case with the Sun implementation as well.
> I ran into the reverse aspect of this problem with the implementation of the
> 8BITMIME support. It was not sufficient to just set the
> Content-Transfer-Encoding header to convert this to 8bit. It was necessary
> to call getContent(), then set the same content back on the message. Once
> that was done, it was safe to change the Content-Transfer-Encoding header.
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