Serious kmail bug

[Anne Wilson-5]

On the 11th March Ingo Kloecker wrote
<quote>
a serious bug causing the corruption of binary attachments in KMail (cf.
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159093) was introduced with
revision 780164 (on 2008-02-28) in kdepim3 proper resp. revision 771698
(on 2008-02-07) in kdepim3 enterprise. This bug has been fixed in
kdepim3 proper (with revision 784040; yesterday) and in kdepim3
enterprise (with revision 782964; on 2008-03-06).

The packagers/distributors have been asked to update their packages as
soon as possible.
</quote>

This bug is still present in kdepim-kmail-3.5.9-4mdv2008.0 and I can see no
bug report regarding it.  Is this work in progress, or should a bug report be
filed?  This is a very serious bug.

Anne

martedì 25 marzo 2008, Anne Wilson ha scritto:

> On the 11th March Ingo Kloecker wrote
> <quote>
> a serious bug causing the corruption of binary attachments in KMail (cf.
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159093) was introduced with
> revision 780164 (on 2008-02-28) in kdepim3 proper resp. revision 771698
> (on 2008-02-07) in kdepim3 enterprise. This bug has been fixed in
> kdepim3 proper (with revision 784040; yesterday) and in kdepim3
> enterprise (with revision 782964; on 2008-03-06).
>
> The packagers/distributors have been asked to update their packages as
> soon as possible.
> </quote>
>
> This bug is still present in kdepim-kmail-3.5.9-4mdv2008.0 and I can see no
> bug report regarding it.  Is this work in progress, or should a bug report be
> filed?  This is a very serious bug.
>
> Anne
>

Anne in my experience i use kde 3.5.9 from backport (at work) and from cooker (here),
i haven't lost document yet.
Anyway if it has been fixed, as said into bug report, please fill a report and
i'm sure Nicolas or Helio will fix it up.

My 2€ cents.
        Angelo

[Anne Wilson-5]

On Tuesday 25 March 2008 14:43:09 Angelo Naselli wrote:

> martedì 25 marzo 2008, Anne Wilson ha scritto:
> > On the 11th March Ingo Kloecker wrote
> > <quote>
> > a serious bug causing the corruption of binary attachments in KMail (cf.
> > http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159093) was introduced with
> > revision 780164 (on 2008-02-28) in kdepim3 proper resp. revision 771698
> > (on 2008-02-07) in kdepim3 enterprise. This bug has been fixed in
> > kdepim3 proper (with revision 784040; yesterday) and in kdepim3
> > enterprise (with revision 782964; on 2008-03-06).
> >
> > The packagers/distributors have been asked to update their packages as
> > soon as possible.
> > </quote>
> >
> > This bug is still present in kdepim-kmail-3.5.9-4mdv2008.0 and I can see
> > no bug report regarding it.  Is this work in progress, or should a bug
> > report be filed?  This is a very serious bug.
> >
> > Anne
>
> Anne in my experience i use kde 3.5.9 from backport (at work) and from
> cooker (here), i haven't lost document yet.

The bug is in the part that saves attachments.  Directly from the mail message
I can open the somefile.doc attachment in kword and print it from there, but
if I save the file it is 0 bytes long.  Apparently this is typical of what
happens with this bug.

> Anyway if it has been fixed, as said into bug report, please fill a report
> and i'm sure Nicolas or Helio will fix it up.
>
The reason I asked is that I suspected it had been overlooked.  I'll file a
bug report.

Anne

[Anne Wilson-5]

On Tuesday 25 March 2008 14:43:09 Angelo Naselli wrote:

> martedì 25 marzo 2008, Anne Wilson ha scritto:
> > On the 11th March Ingo Kloecker wrote
> > <quote>
> > a serious bug causing the corruption of binary attachments in KMail (cf.
> > http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159093) was introduced with
> > revision 780164 (on 2008-02-28) in kdepim3 proper resp. revision 771698
> > (on 2008-02-07) in kdepim3 enterprise. This bug has been fixed in
> > kdepim3 proper (with revision 784040; yesterday) and in kdepim3
> > enterprise (with revision 782964; on 2008-03-06).
> >
> > The packagers/distributors have been asked to update their packages as
> > soon as possible.
> > </quote>
> >
> > This bug is still present in kdepim-kmail-3.5.9-4mdv2008.0 and I can see
> > no bug report regarding it.  Is this work in progress, or should a bug
> > report be filed?  This is a very serious bug.
> >
> > Anne
>
> Anne in my experience i use kde 3.5.9 from backport (at work) and from
> cooker (here), i haven't lost document yet.
> Anyway if it has been fixed, as said into bug report, please fill a report
> and i'm sure Nicolas or Helio will fix it up.
>

It was bug #39378, filed yesterday.  Today it says that a fix is in backports,

but I'm not seeing it in main.backports, where I would expect it.  I'll try
again later today, in case the mirrors haven't caught up yet.

Anne

> It was bug #39378, filed yesterday.  Today it says that a fix is in backports,
> but I'm not seeing it in main.backports, where I would expect it.  I'll try
> again later today, in case the mirrors haven't caught up yet.
>
> Anne

In answer to your cooker mail Nicolas said:

> Re: [Cooker] Re: [Expert] Serious kmail bug
> From: "Nicolas Lécureuil" <neoclust at gmail dot com>
>   To: cooker at mandrivalinux dot org
>   Date: Yesterday 15:52:58
> we have not this bug as helio removed the faulty patch since the 7th of march:
>
> Log Message:    
>
> - Commit 780164 on branch upstream KDE is creating corrupted attaches.
> Removing broken patch for now...
>
> http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages?view=rev&revision=181270
>
>
> --
> Regards
> Nicolas Lécureuil
> Mandriva KDE Contributor

Cheers,
        Angelo

[Anne Wilson-5]

On Wednesday 26 March 2008 21:29:14 Angelo Naselli wrote:

> > It was bug #39378, filed yesterday.  Today it says that a fix is in
> > backports, but I'm not seeing it in main.backports, where I would expect
> > it.  I'll try again later today, in case the mirrors haven't caught up
> > yet.
> >
> > Anne
>
> In answer to your cooker mail Nicolas said:
> > Re: [Cooker] Re: [Expert] Serious kmail bug
> > From: "Nicolas Lécureuil" <neoclust at gmail dot com>
> >   To: cooker at mandrivalinux dot org
> >   Date: Yesterday 15:52:58
> > we have not this bug as helio removed the faulty patch since the 7th of
> > march:
> >
> > Log Message:
> >
> > - Commit 780164 on branch upstream KDE is creating corrupted attaches.
> > Removing broken patch for now...
> >
> > http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages?view=rev&revision=181
> >270
> >
> >
> > --
> > Regards
> > Nicolas Lécureuil
> > Mandriva KDE Contributor
>
> Cheers,
> Angelo

This makes no sense.  First, I got this morning a bug report message saying

Nicolas Lécureuil <neoclust@...> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |FIXED




--- Comment #1 from Nicolas Lécureuil <neoclust@...>  2008-03-26
07:00:21 CEST ---
a new backport have been issued

Second, if I read his reply that you quoted correctly, he is saying that the
bug does not exist in Mandriva, but it most certainly does.  Yesterday I
needed to save several .doc attachments, and it was not possible.  Every
attachment saved as 0 bytes.

I don't know what to believe now.  I thought this morning's message meant that
it was truly fixed.

Anne

[James Kerr-2]

On Wednesday 26 Mar 2008, Anne Wilson wrote:

>
> --- Comment #1 from Nicolas Lécureuil <neoclust@...>  2008-03-26
> 07:00:21 CEST ---
> a new backport have been issued
>
> Second, if I read his reply that you quoted correctly, he is saying that
> the bug does not exist in Mandriva, but it most certainly does.
> Yesterday I needed to save several .doc attachments, and it was not
> possible.  Every attachment saved as 0 bytes.
>
> I don't know what to believe now.  I thought this morning's message meant
> that it was truly fixed.
>

The backport to 2008.0 has not reached the mirrors yet (or hadn't when I
rsync'd this morning). It should be there soon.

Jim

[g-30]

Anne Wilson wrote:

> Yesterday I
> needed to save several .doc attachments, and it was not possible.  Every
> attachment saved as 0 bytes.

before you try to save attachment, create or move message to an empty
mail folder.

using knonqueor, open mail folder w/ kwrite or other text editor, do a cursor
drag on attachment.

create an empty file, open file w/ kwrite, center click to fill. close, rename
as whatever.doc.

i have used this trick with mozilla for text, hex, and other type files.
just might work for you until bug is fixed.

hth.

--

g
.

[g-30]

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g wrote:
>
> using knonqueor, open mail folder w/ kwrite or other text editor, do a cursor
> drag on attachment.

forget that. i got to thinking about what it was i did and it will not work.

text, binary. will not work with .doc, i checked to be sure.


good luck on bug fix.


- --

tc,hago.

g
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[Anne Wilson-5]

On Wednesday 26 March 2008 22:12:00 James Kerr wrote:

> On Wednesday 26 Mar 2008, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > --- Comment #1 from Nicolas Lécureuil <neoclust@...>  2008-03-26
> > 07:00:21 CEST ---
> > a new backport have been issued
> >
> > Second, if I read his reply that you quoted correctly, he is saying that
> > the bug does not exist in Mandriva, but it most certainly does.
> > Yesterday I needed to save several .doc attachments, and it was not
> > possible.  Every attachment saved as 0 bytes.
> >
> > I don't know what to believe now.  I thought this morning's message meant
> > that it was truly fixed.
>
> The backport to 2008.0 has not reached the mirrors yet (or hadn't when I
> rsync'd this morning). It should be there soon.
>

Thanks, Jim.  That's reassuring.

Anne

[Anne Wilson-5]

On Thursday 27 March 2008 03:53:59 g wrote:

> g wrote:
> > using knonqueor, open mail folder w/ kwrite or other text editor, do a
> > cursor drag on attachment.
>
> forget that. i got to thinking about what it was i did and it will not
> work.
>
> text, binary. will not work with .doc, i checked to be sure.
>
>
> good luck on bug fix.

For the moment I settled for opening the attachment in kmail and printing from
there.  I'll save the attachments once the bug-fix comes.

Anne

[Anne Wilson-5]

On Thursday 27 March 2008 09:30:14 Anne Wilson wrote:

> On Thursday 27 March 2008 03:53:59 g wrote:
> > g wrote:
> > > using knonqueor, open mail folder w/ kwrite or other text editor, do a
> > > cursor drag on attachment.
> >
> > forget that. i got to thinking about what it was i did and it will not
> > work.
> >
> > text, binary. will not work with .doc, i checked to be sure.
> >
> >
> > good luck on bug fix.
>
> For the moment I settled for opening the attachment in kmail and printing
> from there.  I'll save the attachments once the bug-fix comes.
>

Oops - I meant that I opened the .doc files in kword.

Anne

[James Kerr-2]

On Thursday 27 Mar 2008, Anne Wilson wrote:

> On Wednesday 26 March 2008 22:12:00 James Kerr wrote:
> > On Wednesday 26 Mar 2008, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > --- Comment #1 from Nicolas Lécureuil <neoclust@...>
> > > 2008-03-26 07:00:21 CEST ---
> > > a new backport have been issued
> > >
> > > Second, if I read his reply that you quoted correctly, he is saying
> > > that the bug does not exist in Mandriva, but it most certainly does.
> > > Yesterday I needed to save several .doc attachments, and it was not
> > > possible.  Every attachment saved as 0 bytes.
> > >
> > > I don't know what to believe now.  I thought this morning's message
> > > meant that it was truly fixed.
> >
> > The backport to 2008.0 has not reached the mirrors yet (or hadn't when
> > I rsync'd this morning). It should be there soon.
>
> Thanks, Jim.  That's reassuring.
>

kdepim-3.5.9-9mdv2008.0.i586.rpm (and component packages) is now available
on distrib-coffee.

Jim

[g-30]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday 27 March 2008 03:53:59 g wrote:

> For the moment I settled for opening the attachment in kmail and printing from
> there.  I'll save the attachments once the bug-fix comes.

as another thought, open email under another mail reader.


--

tc,hago.

g
.

[Anne Wilson-5]

On Thursday 27 March 2008 10:42:33 James Kerr wrote:
> kdepim-3.5.9-9mdv2008.0.i586.rpm (and component packages) is now available
> on distrib-coffee.

Thanks.  Got it now, and I can confirm that the problem is gone.  The
attachments now save correctly and open with appropriate packages.

Anne

[Anne Wilson-5]

On Thursday 27 March 2008 15:16:27 g wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Thursday 27 March 2008 03:53:59 g wrote:
> >
> > For the moment I settled for opening the attachment in kmail and printing
> > from there.  I'll save the attachments once the bug-fix comes.
>
> as another thought, open email under another mail reader.
>
That would have worked, but I didn't have another one set up at the time.  
It's fixed now, though, so I won't bother setting up an alternative.  I tend
to do that only when I want to test something.

Anne

[g-30]

Anne Wilson wrote:

> That would have worked, but I didn't have another one set up at the time.  

at least bug is fixed and you are back up.


--

tc,hago.

g
.

[Norman Carver]

On Tuesday 25 March 2008 08:34:18 am Anne Wilson wrote:
> This bug is still present in kdepim-kmail-3.5.9-4mdv2008.0 and I can see no
> bug report regarding it.  Is this work in progress, or should a bug report
> be filed?  This is a very serious bug.

Ah, I never upgraded KDE on any of my 2008.0 systems,
so I still have the original release package kdepim-kmail-3.5.7-16,
which does not have this bug apparently.

Thanks for the warning Anne!  I generally avoid KDE updates
if all is working well.  Had some back experiences before.

Norm

[Anne Wilson-5]

On Thursday 27 March 2008 18:44:44 Norman Carver wrote:

> On Tuesday 25 March 2008 08:34:18 am Anne Wilson wrote:
> > This bug is still present in kdepim-kmail-3.5.9-4mdv2008.0 and I can see
> > no bug report regarding it.  Is this work in progress, or should a bug
> > report be filed?  This is a very serious bug.
>
> Ah, I never upgraded KDE on any of my 2008.0 systems,
> so I still have the original release package kdepim-kmail-3.5.7-16,
> which does not have this bug apparently.
>
> Thanks for the warning Anne!  I generally avoid KDE updates
> if all is working well.  Had some back experiences before.
>

The package in main-backports does fix it.  However, I guess that for most

people 3.5.9 won't be used until 2008.1, and that version, I'm sure, will
have the fix.

The good news is that the problem was announced  as a warning to users as soon
as the developers knew about it, and the fix announced to distro developers
at the same time.

Anne

giovedì 27 marzo 2008, Norman Carver ha scritto:
> Ah, I never upgraded KDE on any of my 2008.0 systems,
> so I still have the original release package kdepim-kmail-3.5.7-16,
> which does not have this bug apparently.
>
> Thanks for the warning Anne!  I generally avoid KDE updates
> if all is working well.  Had some back experiences before.

Well kdepim-kmail-3.5.7 didn't work for me imap and filters
were totally broken...

Angelo