retchmail bug - eating attachments - (was [inspector_rikati at yahoo.com.au: See attachment 090717-Ron Frederick solicitor Re Mirabella-etc])

Zenaan Harkness zen at freedbms.net
Tue Aug 25 23:13:17 UTC 2009


bump.

Gday.

PLEASE let me know if there is a better place/ mailing list that I
can post my requests for help on retchmail.

I get one or two such emails, nearly every day, and each time attachment
is still eaten.

Here's one from just now: retchmail output:

$ retchmail
A* Retrieve mail from zenaan.harkness at pop.gmail.com:995 into justa.
B* Retrieve mail from zenaan at pop.gmail.com:995 into justa.
A  Recv(HELLO): +OK Gpop ready for requests from 121.200.7.42 35pf10306151pxi.11
B  Recv(HELLO): +OK Gpop ready for requests from 121.200.7.42 36pf10090702pxi.74
B* 74 messages in 1899996 bytes.
A* 77 messages in 1245064 bytes.
B  [1]      7.9k <r.m.guerrero at usit.u> Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Forrester: Ingres a
B  [2]      7.9k  <schmiddy at gmail.com> Re: [NOVICE] pg_dump
A  [3]      5.5k <catalina.oancea at gma> Re: [Kamailio-Users] Phones that support
...
A  [73]      26k         <d at d-man.org> Re: [Freeswitch-users] FreeSWITCH 1.0.4
A  [34]      34k <MPeace at edcogroupinc> Re: [Freeswitch-users] Moved Freeswitch
B  [6]      212k
A  [45]      31k  <tculjaga at gmail.com> Re: [Freeswitch-users] Freeswitch perfor
B  <inspector_rikati at ya> see attachment 090825-G54449-00-DRegistr
A  [46]      30k  <msc at freeswitch.org> Re: [Freeswitch-users] Moved Freeswitch
...


Please note the lines:
B  [6]      212k

and:
B  <inspector_rikati at ya> see attachment 090825-G54449-00-DRegistr


Now, in mutt, I have the following line:
 29 N   090825 Mr Gerrit H. Sc (0.6K) see attachment 090825-G54449-00-DRegistrar Whitaker re-adjournment-etc


In my procmail log I have the following 3 lines:
 From justa at ip61.upmart.info  Wed Aug 26 08:46:09 2009
  Subject: see attachment 090825-G54449-00-DRegistrar Whitaker re-adjournment-et
   Folder: /home/justa/Mail/gmail                5287


In my /var/log/mail.info, I have sets of lines like the following:
 Aug 26 08:46:28 ip61 postfix/pickup[3550]: 73F7D20919: uid=1000 from=<justa>
 Aug 26 08:46:28 ip61 postfix/cleanup[6454]: 73F7D20919: message-id=<09db01ca25a2$0a8b4730$0a00a8c0 at pazu>
 Aug 26 08:46:28 ip61 postfix/qmgr[3551]: 73F7D20919: from=<justa at ip61.upmart.info>, size=243110, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
 Aug 26 08:46:28 ip61 postfix/local[5284]: 73F7D20919: to=<justa at ip61.upmart.info>, orig_to=<justa>, relay=local, delay=4.2, delays=4.1/0/0/0.07, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to command: procmail -a "$EXTENSION" -o -f -)
 Aug 26 08:46:28 ip61 postfix/qmgr[3551]: 73F7D20919: removed


Finally, my /etc/postfix/main.cf contains the following line:
mailbox_command = procmail -a "$EXTENSION" -o -f -


TIA
Zenaan



On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 02:13:31PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> retchmail appears to be eating attachments, but only specific
> attachments, as in ones that come from a particular contact of mine,
> Gerrit Schorel-Hlavka. Quite probably he is using some old mail client
> on MSWindows which is not doing correct mime attachments or something.
> 
> I receive a few emails from Gerrit each week.
> 
> I started using retchmail on or about 31 July 2009 - just a couple weeks
> ago really.
> 
> I have attached two emails:
> 
> *
> The first is an original email with attachment, from Gerrit. This as you
> can see by the date, I received mid-July, before using retchmail (I was
> using the dog-slow fetchmail before).
> 
> *
> The second is this same email which I just bounced to myself, to test
> it, now that I've realised it's retchmail causing the problem. As you
> can see, no attachment!
> 
> 
> My environment:
> 
> retchmail
> postfix
> procmail
> mutt
> 
> 
> Tests I have performed/ data points:
> 
> *
> All emails with attachments, received from Gerrit since July 31, have
> lost their attachments.
> 
> *
> Bouncing the good email with attachment, to myself through local machine
> (postfix -> local account) successfully routes through procmail, and
> into my Mail/ directory (checking my mail.info and procmail logs).
> 
> *
> Bouncing the good email with attachment, out to my gmail account, then
> downloading with retchmail, caused the email to route through my local
> postfix, then to procmail and into my local Mail/ directory (checking
> postfix + promail logs), BUT WITHOUT ATTACHMENT, as in, the second
> attachment to this email is the result!
> 
> 
> If you need me to test anything further, please ask.
> 
> If you will, please confirm that you received this email, and let me
> know if possible of any progress/ thoughts on the missing attachments.
> 
> If there is somewhere else I should send this bug report, please also
> let me know.
> 
> (I really, really don't want to go back to fetchmail, as it's an
> absolute pig in terms of speed, but not losing attachments unfortunately
> ranks higher in importance to speed for my work use case.)
> 
> Nailbitingly,
> Zenaan
> 
> -- 
> Homepage: www.SoulSound.net -- Free Australia: www.UPMART.org
> Please respect the confidentiality of this email as sensibly warranted.

> Delivered-To: zenaan at gmail.com
> Delivered-To: zen at freedbms.net
> To: ronfrederick at hotmac.com.au
> Cc: inspector_rikati at yahoo.com.au, marco.mirabella at moretonbay.qld.gov.au,
> 	leo.mirabella at defence.gov.au, Peter.sier at statetrustees.com.au,
> 	Pamela.Watson at supremecourt.vic.gov.au,
> 	brendan.hoysted at justice.vic.gov.au, vcat at vcat.vic.gov.au
> X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/6.0.18 YahooMailWebService/0.7.289.15
> From: "Mr Gerrit H. Schorel-Hlavka" <inspector_rikati at yahoo.com.au>
> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:23:14 -0700 (PDT)
> Subject: See attachment 090717-Ron Frederick solicitor Re Mirabella-etc
> 
> WITHOUT PREJUDICE & CONFIDENTIAL
> Ron Frederick, Solicitor                                                                                    .          17-7-2009
> ronfrederick at hotmac.com.au 
>  
> Cc;       *  Marco Mirabella marco.mirabella at moretonbay.qld.gov.au
> * Alexandra Axford, General Manager Corporation Relations State Trustees Ltd
> C/o Peter.sier at statetrustees.com.au
> .           * Mr Leo Mirabella (SCV No 1240415 of 2009) leo.mirabella at defence.gov.au 
> * Mr Peter Sier, Senior Personal Financial Consultant, State Trustees             
>                   Peter.sier at statetrustees.com.au
> * Pamela Walton            Pamela.Watson at supremecourt.vic.gov.au                                          
> Associate to The Honourable Associate Justice Evans
> Ph: 96039327 Fax 9603 9320
> * Mr Brendan Hoysted            brendan.hoysted at justice.vic.gov.au               
> OPA Duty Officer at VCAT – Guardianship List, 5th Floor – 436 Lonsdale Street,             Melbourne, Vic, 3000, Ph; 9603 9500 – 1800 136 829 Fax 9603 9501
> * Justice Bell vcat at vcat.vic.gov.au          
> .                                                                                               
> .                                                              Re Mirabella matters - etc
> Sir,
> See attachment 090717-Ron Frederick solicitor Re Mirabella-etc
> .
> Mr G. H. Schorel-Hlavka
> .
> 17-7-2009
> 
>  
> MAY JUSTICE ALWAYS PREVAIL®
> Mr. G. H. Schorel-Hlavka, GUARDIAN
> 107 Graham Road, Viewbank, 3084, Victoria, Australia 
> Ph (International) 61394577209
> .
> Email; mayjusticealwaysprevail at schorel-hlavka.com 
> help at office-of-the-guardian.com (constitutional matters only)
>  
> "CONSTITUTIONALIST" and Author of books in the INSPECTOR-RIKATI® series on certain constitutional and other legal issues. 
> .
> EITHER WE HAVE A CONSTITUTION OR WE DON'T!
>  
> .
> Website;
> http://www.schorel-hlavka.com
> Blog;
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>  
>  
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> 
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