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Answering to mails sent through messages.openstreetmap.org not correctly paresd when using MIME emails with multipart/alternative #4119
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Author: Kurt Krampmeier Trac has replaced the boundary lines by thin gray horizontal rules. The result is still bad enough to show the problem clearly. |
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Author: TomH Fixed - we now only use one part. Will be deployed shortly. |
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Reporter: Kurt Krampmeier
[Submitted to the original trac issue database at 6.03pm, Thursday, 1st December 2011]
Answering a mail, that was sent through the OSM message system (e. g. http://www.openstreetmap.org/message/new/Kurt%20Krampmeier), causes unwanted results for the reader, when the reply is a multipart/alternative email. Creating multipart/alternative email is unfortunately the default setting in many popular mail clients and web mailers.
In such cases, the whole mail body (both parts in their transfer encoding along with their headers and boundaries) is interpreted as the message text. So a simple answer like "Hello World!" might show up as
"This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
--------------050501020709070602040306
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Hello World!
--------------050501020709070602040306
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
Hello World!
</body>
</html>
--------------050501020709070602040306--" in the receiver's mail. The display on the OSM website is also wrong in a similar way.
The wrong use of HTML entities shown in this example is caused by another bug: http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/4118
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