Re: [Imap-protocol] GMail IMAP: returning BODYSTRUCTURE for embedded messages

Hello Brandon,

Thanks for the response. Where is this issue in the Google priority
list? I understand that you may not have an ETA, but we would like to
understand if Google considers this of high priority or low prirority.

Thanks! :)

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Brandon Long <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 <[email protected]> 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 Kundrát 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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