MBOX-Line: From blong at google.com  Mon Aug 12 16:09:16 2013
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Brandon Long <blong@google.com>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:51 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] GMail IMAP: returning BODYSTRUCTURE for embedded
	messages
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Like everything, its complicated.

We attempted to roll out a fix for this a year ago, and it even fixed some
other random bugs in completely unrelated code.

Unfortunately, it also broke some fairly important backend handling of
messages that were previously parsed with the incorrect parser as it
changed our understanding of the structure of the message.  Enabling our
system to handle these types of changes is very complicated, and the work
is still ongoing.  I don't have an ETA on when we'll be able to switch to
the correct parsing.

The exact bug was that we didn't parse message/rfc822 attachments if they
had a Content-Disposition: header of value attached.  This was an
unfortunate and wrong fix to a bug in the early days of Gmail where people
would want to attach entire email messages (.eml files) and forward them
and otherwise handle them as an "attachment" and not a sub-part of the
message.

Brandon


On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Ali, Saqib <docbook.xml@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Has there been any progress made on this?
>
> Thanks!
> Saqib
>
> Brandon Long <blong <at> google.com> writes:
> >
> > Yes, we have an open bug for this one, I'm not sure why there hasn't
> > been any progress on it.
> >
> > Brandon
> >
> > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 7:35 AM, Mark Crispin <mrc+imap <at> panda.com>
> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 19 May 2011, Jan Kundr?t wrote:
> > >>
> > >> I'd appreciate if you could investigate your compliance with the
> format
> > >> of BODYSTRUCTURE you generate when working with certain messages, as
> > >> described in this messages. The same issue was reported to you through
> > >> an internal issue tracker in January 2011 by Henner Zeller on my
> behalf.
> > >
> > > And was reported by me more than 3 years ago.
> > >
> > > -- Mark --
> > >
> > > http://panda.com/mrc
> > > Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch.
> > > Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
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