Javamail problems (Re: Pushing towards a RELEASE)

[Stefano Bagnara <ap...@bago.org>]

I just posted the issues to the javamail-interest mailing list.
Let's see if they confirm this or not.

Stefano

Markus Kühn wrote:
> "Stefano Bagnara" <ap...@bago.org>
>> Markus Kühn wrote:
>>> So the bug is that if you turn 8bit support on you have to check if 
>>> an incoming message as encoding information?
>>>
>>> And is this bug confirmed by Sun?
>>
>> The setContent bug is in their bugparade "in progress."
>> The bug I talk about is not the same but similar. It is "correct" code 
>> in SMTPTransport that simply hit the "in progress" bug: the proposed a 
>> workaround for the bug, the should use it in their code.
>>
>> I have not found this SMTPTransport bug reported in their bug db. ALso 
>> I had no time to write a unittest and report it. Any volounteer is 
>> welcome!
>>
>> The bug is:
>> - read a 7bit quoted-printable message from a stream
>> - send it via SMTPtransport to a server supporting 8bitmime and having 
>> activated 8bitmime support in the SMTPSession.
>>
>> You receive a message with headers updated to report 8bit content, but 
>> content unaltered and still containing the quoted-printable stuff.
>>
>> Furthermore if you read an 8bitmime message from a stream and you sent 
>> it via STMPTransport to a server not supporting  8bitmime it is not 
>> converted to 7bitmime.
>>
>> So we have 2 bugs here.
>> I have not reported the bug almost for time reasons but also because 
>> the main bug is in their db since 2001 and it is still "in progress"...
> 
> I think the encoding issue and missing encoding information (now bug nr. 
> 3) could be considered as "bugs" themselves, so you should report them. 
> I am curious about their point of view.
> 
> Markus


---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: server-dev-unsubscribe@james.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: server-dev-help@james.apache.org