Some attached emails (ie MIME digest) are empty when downloaded from IMAP

[danomatika]

Binary package hint: evolution

Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04, Evolution 2.26.1

I am subscribed to a few Mailman powered email lists which send MIME digests (individual emails sent as attachments) to my Gmail account. I access this account using IMAP with Evolution and some of the attached emails contain empty headers, with no actual email text. These emails display fine in Gmail.

This problem only showed up when I switched from POP to IMAP and I have had to set the list to send as plain text which displays fine, but makes replying to individual messages a pain as I need to copy and paste the quote, recipient, and subject text.

Here's the contents of one of the "empty" email attachments if I open it in GEdit (*** substituted for addresses, etc):
<------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
From: **************************************
Precedence: list
MIME-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v935.3)
To: **************
References: **************************************
  **************************************
  **************************************
In-Reply-To: **************************************
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:19:03 +0200
Reply-To: **************
Message-ID: **************************************
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed; delsp=yes
Subject: Re: **********************
Message: 1
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------>

And here's the header for an attachment evolution can read from the same list:

<------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: **************************************
Precedence: list
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: **************************************
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:13:59 -0400
Reply-To: **************************************
Message-ID: **************************************
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0016e644ddfc652f84046f3a6187
Subject: [**************************************
Message: 3

--0016e644ddfc652f84046f3a6187
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

(... begin message ...)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------>

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, the issue should be sent to bugzilla.gnome.org to the software writters by somebody having access to a buggy server

[Mike.lifeguard (mikelifeguard)]

Sebastien, how do you know it is a buggy server causing this issue?

As well, has this been sent to the GNOME/Evolution folks already?

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Can you please send this upstream following the instructions described at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME, since you are having the issue and can give the developers better feedback to their questions? Thanks in advance.

[Nigel Babu (nigelbabu)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=604082

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

According to the upstream bug this should be fixed with Evolution 2.32.2; so I'll go ahead and mark this Fix Released (we've uploaded evolution 2.32.2 to Natty).

I notice that the release on which this bug was reported, Jaunty Jackalope, is now EOL. This means no further updates will happen. You might want to upgrade to a newer release, or wait until Natty is released to do so. If after upgrading you find that you still see the issue described above happening, consider trying the steps in comment 5 in the upstream bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=604082#c5