How can I see attachments?

[Daniel Sahlberg <da...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

(Please keep me in CC since I'm not subscribed to the list!)

Apache Infra recently helped to backfill lists.apache.org with some old
mboxes for the Subversion project. When verifying, I found an e-mail [1]
that contains another e-mail as an attachment. I can't find a way to view
that second e-mail. It is possible to view it in raw source [2] but there
is no indication that it exists (except implicit from Karl's text). Compare
to our old archive [3] where it is presented separately.

I can see in some recent messages (for example [4]) that attached files are
presented separately.

Is there something that can be done to allow the attached e-mail in [1] to
be presented in a more intuitive way? Let me know if I should open an issue
(and if it should be in the original ponymail or in -foal).

Kind regards,
Daniel

[1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/km3dkh2b7cqddyp45n6n7x13n2wmxwcy
[2]
https://lists.apache.org/api/source.lua?id=km3dkh2b7cqddyp45n6n7x13n2wmxwcy
[3] https://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2005-01/1170.shtml
[4] https://lists.apache.org/thread/fgfjm9q5sxc15p2p8cn4xmdozffygmq4

Re: How can I see attachments?

[Daniel Gruno <hu...@apache.org>]

On 05/01/2022 04.17, Daniel Sahlberg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> (Please keep me in CC since I'm not subscribed to the list!)
> 
> Apache Infra recently helped to backfill lists.apache.org 
> <http://lists.apache.org> with some old mboxes for the Subversion 
> project. When verifying, I found an e-mail [1] that contains another 
> e-mail as an attachment. I can't find a way to view that second e-mail. 
> It is possible to view it in raw source [2] but there is no indication 
> that it exists (except implicit from Karl's text). Compare to our old 
> archive [3] where it is presented separately.
> 
> I can see in some recent messages (for example [4]) that attached files 
> are presented separately.
> 
> Is there something that can be done to allow the attached e-mail in [1] 
> to be presented in a more intuitive way? Let me know if I should open an 
> issue (and if it should be in the original ponymail or in -foal).

The issue at hand is that the attachment is nameless (does not have a 
filename specified in the content-disposition header), so the importer 
would not have known this was meant to be an attached file (it thinks 
it's an alternate body I guess). You can view the source of the email 
and see the inline-attached email, but you are not able to download it 
separately due to it having no filename. I'm not sure if/how this should 
be addressed.

You can view the source in the UI, or at 
https://lists.apache.org/api/source.lua?id=km3dkh2b7cqddyp45n6n7x13n2wmxwcy

> 
> Kind regards,
> Daniel
> 
> [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/km3dkh2b7cqddyp45n6n7x13n2wmxwcy 
> <https://lists.apache.org/thread/km3dkh2b7cqddyp45n6n7x13n2wmxwcy>
> [2] 
> https://lists.apache.org/api/source.lua?id=km3dkh2b7cqddyp45n6n7x13n2wmxwcy <https://lists.apache.org/api/source.lua?id=km3dkh2b7cqddyp45n6n7x13n2wmxwcy>
> [3] https://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2005-01/1170.shtml 
> <https://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2005-01/1170.shtml>
> [4] https://lists.apache.org/thread/fgfjm9q5sxc15p2p8cn4xmdozffygmq4 
> <https://lists.apache.org/thread/fgfjm9q5sxc15p2p8cn4xmdozffygmq4>
> 

Re: How can I see attachments?

[sebb <se...@gmail.com>]

Lists.apache.org is run by a 3rd party. Please contact Infra regarding
this issue.

FTR, it looks like lists.a.o has not extracted the attachment; see:
https://lists.apache.org/api/email.lua?id=km3dkh2b7cqddyp45n6n7x13n2wmxwcy

The attachments array (near the bottom) is empty.

Note that mod_mbox does/did provide direct access to such attachments.

On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 at 10:17, Daniel Sahlberg
<da...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> (Please keep me in CC since I'm not subscribed to the list!)
>
> Apache Infra recently helped to backfill lists.apache.org with some old mboxes for the Subversion project. When verifying, I found an e-mail [1] that contains another e-mail as an attachment. I can't find a way to view that second e-mail. It is possible to view it in raw source [2] but there is no indication that it exists (except implicit from Karl's text). Compare to our old archive [3] where it is presented separately.
>
> I can see in some recent messages (for example [4]) that attached files are presented separately.
>
> Is there something that can be done to allow the attached e-mail in [1] to be presented in a more intuitive way? Let me know if I should open an issue (and if it should be in the original ponymail or in -foal).
>
> Kind regards,
> Daniel
>
> [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/km3dkh2b7cqddyp45n6n7x13n2wmxwcy
> [2] https://lists.apache.org/api/source.lua?id=km3dkh2b7cqddyp45n6n7x13n2wmxwcy
> [3] https://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2005-01/1170.shtml
> [4] https://lists.apache.org/thread/fgfjm9q5sxc15p2p8cn4xmdozffygmq4
>