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vcard mime type not recognized

Bug #886239 reported by John Hein
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Uday Reddy

Bug Description

I am seeing the following header on a vcard from outlook:

Content-Type: text/directory; charset="utf-8"; profile=vCard
Content-Description:
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="default.vcf";
    creation-date="Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:39:28 GMT";
    modification-date="Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:39:28 GMT"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Editing the raw message and changing "directory" to x-vcard gets it decoded and displayed in pretty format.

Otherwise, I just see the raw vcard text:

BEGIN:VCARD
PROFILE:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
MAILER:Microsoft Exchange
PRODID:Microsoft Exchange
 .
 .
etc.

According to wikipedia (not really authoritative, I know), text/directory and another variant are valid mime types - not to mention mail clients out there that probably just set application/octet-stream and rely on receiving clients to guess what to do based on filename extension (.vcf or .vcard) (similar to the common issue with application/octet-stream and .pdf filenames).

Tags: 7.19 mime

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Uday Reddy (reddyuday) wrote : Re: [Bug 886239] [NEW] vcard mime type not recognized

text/directory is old (deprecated) name for text/vcard. Can you upload a
sample message that I can use for testing?

Cheers,
Uday

John Hein (xpqheqdvq4)
description: updated
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John Hein (xpqheqdvq4) wrote :

Attached is a sample.

Uday Reddy (reddyuday)
Changed in vm:
status: New → In Progress
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
assignee: nobody → Uday Reddy (reddyuday)
milestone: none → 8.2.0
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Uday Reddy (reddyuday) wrote :

It works now, in revision 1248 of trunk.

Changed in vm:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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John Hein (xpqheqdvq4) wrote :

Confirmed fixed. Thanks.

Uday Reddy (reddyuday)
tags: added: 7.19 mime
Uday Reddy (reddyuday)
Changed in vm:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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