'Re: [kdepim-users] Messages with unknown subject,'

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List:       kdepim-users
Subject:    Re: [kdepim-users] Messages with unknown subject,
From:       Ingo =?iso-8859-15?q?Kl=F6cker?= <kloecker () kde ! org>
Date:       2008-11-17 22:03:41
Message-ID: 200811172303.42016 () thufir ! ingo-kloecker ! de
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On Monday 17 November 2008, Paolo Pozzan wrote:
> Il sabato 15 novembre 2008 22:12:14 Anne Wilson ha scritto:
> > On Saturday 15 November 2008 19:58:17 Paolo Pozzan wrote:
> > > Il sabato 15 novembre 2008 20:30:26 Anne Wilson ha scritto:
> > > > On Saturday 15 November 2008 17:54:55 Paolo Pozzan wrote:
> > > > > Hello!
> > > > > I am new to the list. I write to know how to solve a problem
> > > > > I encounter more often every day.
> > > > > It happens that I receive regular messages (from mailing
> > > > > lists or reliable senders) but they are displayed as no
> > > > > sender, no subject, no time and the body of the message is
> > > > > the plain text e-mail, with headers and content. I use KMail
> > > > > 1.9.9, KDE 3.5.10 on sidux up-to-date. I'm sorry if the
> > > > > solution is already public, but I looked for it without
> > > > > success :-P
> > > > 
> > > > Pablo, is it possible for you to get a screenshot, so that we
> > > > can see exactly what it looks like?  (You may have to shrink it
> > > > to get it accepted on a list - up to around 50Kb seems to
> > > > work.)
> > > > 
> > > > Anne
> > > 
> > > Here it is:
> > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/paolop/3032029361/
> > > 
> > > That's the mail I sent to this ML, using KMail, obviously.
> > > Thanks!
> > 
> > Wow! I've never seen anything like that.  I think we need Ingo on
> > this one. Sorry, I've no suggestions at all.  It can't be anything
> > in the message itself, as it displayed perfectly here, but I can't
> > think of anything that would do that to it.
> > 
> > Anne
> 
> Hello Ingo, I reply to this message as your is corrupt...
> You find the source of the message in the attached text file.
> If you need more informations just ask.

The start of the source:
=====
X-Apparently-To: paolopoz12@yahoo.it via 87.248.110.190; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:55:23 \
                -0800
X-YMailISG: 
aiyQQNkWLDvQVuFK9CMFjmoenCrrgbZD2POv8mHD1rBhnOi13L3sWKiDwUw9o5BU.9RSaiMIdheJTFAjsiChWn \
91_4U3kxoIST4w65HqDig9CxaBl8Xybh0x5rei7.6XDj1SmJMgG0U5Z.Vje1vtbHqCwpCZ9NIM1Y7k4dkSuKd2 \
aEXBsfasRaKbKd20drycXFgbsiSUcbI.Xk2TqhRKSpJCBKIOXkoiM8vLLg1C6oA7BC8uwDP4R9hczzKzIo7KRC \
cPvmnSBTLG_0bhCMPLzUg7B.avVYUka7DUZ52KQLuFq6hkrsyauMD4U_dcBg0rg2ok.pWMoPOjFzZWKU8Wg.8UzamZwi4aud_n2NRufny0VRNJZO9ceduSXReMkjH01TM5v7AMeJXsK5nugu85z_CY1wg-

X-Originating-IP: [131.246.120.250]
Authentication-Results: mta347.mail.mud.yahoo.com  from=yahoo.it; domainkeys=neutral \
(no  sig)
Status: RO
X-Status: RC
X-KMail-EncryptionState: N
X-KMail-SignatureState: N
X-KMail-MDN-Sent:  

; from=yahoo.it; dkim=neutral  (no  sig)
Received: from 131.246.120.250  (HELO ktown.kde.org) (131.246.120.250)
  by mta347.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:55:22 -0800
=====

The lines
=====
Status: RO
X-Status: RC
X-KMail-EncryptionState: N
X-KMail-SignatureState: N
X-KMail-MDN-Sent:  
=====
have been added by KMail, so the correct header should look as follows:
=====
X-Apparently-To: paolopoz12@yahoo.it via 87.248.110.190; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:55:23 \
                -0800
X-YMailISG: 
aiyQQNkWLDvQVuFK9CMFjmoenCrrgbZD2POv8mHD1rBhnOi13L3sWKiDwUw9o5BU.9RSaiMIdheJTFAjsiChWn \
91_4U3kxoIST4w65HqDig9CxaBl8Xybh0x5rei7.6XDj1SmJMgG0U5Z.Vje1vtbHqCwpCZ9NIM1Y7k4dkSuKd2 \
aEXBsfasRaKbKd20drycXFgbsiSUcbI.Xk2TqhRKSpJCBKIOXkoiM8vLLg1C6oA7BC8uwDP4R9hczzKzIo7KRC \
cPvmnSBTLG_0bhCMPLzUg7B.avVYUka7DUZ52KQLuFq6hkrsyauMD4U_dcBg0rg2ok.pWMoPOjFzZWKU8Wg.8UzamZwi4aud_n2NRufny0VRNJZO9ceduSXReMkjH01TM5v7AMeJXsK5nugu85z_CY1wg-

X-Originating-IP: [131.246.120.250]
Authentication-Results: mta347.mail.mud.yahoo.com  from=yahoo.it; domainkeys=neutral \
(no  sig)
; from=yahoo.it; dkim=neutral  (no  sig)
Received: from 131.246.120.250  (HELO ktown.kde.org) (131.246.120.250)
  by mta347.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:55:22 -0800
[...]
=====

Now the problem is the line starting with "; from". This line is not a valid line in \
an email message  header. Since it belongs to the preceding line it should start with \
some whitespace.

There are two possibilities:
a) Yahoo fails to add the Authentication-Results header in the correct format.
b) KMail corrupts the header when it receives the message.

I think b is highly unlikely because we would have noticed if there was such a \
serious bug in  KMail. a, OTOH, is probably not noticed by many other people because \
other mail clients are  probably more forgiving when they encounter such an invalid \
line in the header. You should be  able to verify whether it's Yahoo's fault by \
checking your mail with another mail client and then  looking at the source with this \
other mail client. Just make sure you do not check those  messages with KMail because \
that might corrupt them.

Regards,
Ingo

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