bug related to ical

[Olivier Berger]

Hi.

I didn't seem to find any followup.

I'm experiencing a similar problem... Anyone with hints on how to solve
this ?

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,

Robert Horn <rjhorn at alum.mit.edu> writes:

> I've noticed a problem related to handling of ical attachments.  I'm
> using Notmuch 0.13 on Emacs 23.3.1.  I've done some basic
> troubleshooting.
>
> The problem arises with emails from Concur that include an ical
> attachment being viewed with the notmuch message viewer.  The problems
> are:
>  1. When opening the email there is sometimes the following mesage and
>  error in Emacs message buffer:
>   Converting icalendar...done
>   notmuch-show-insert-bodypart-internal: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil
>
>  2. Some (not all) of the view commands fail, e.g. "v", "V", "w".
>  Others work, like "m", and "q".
>
>  3. Examination of the /tmp directory shows notmuch-ical temp files being
>  created but they are zero length.
>
> This is related to the ical attachment.  When I editted one of the emails to
> remove the attachment, the problem went away.  I suspect it is related
> to the attachments being base64 encoded.  The header of the mime
> attachment shows:
>
> Content-Type: application/octet-stream;
> 	name="ConcurCalendarEntry.ics"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> Content-Disposition: attachment;
> 	filename="ConcurCalendarEntry.ics"
>
> The encoding is correct.  The attachment decodes and looks right.  With
> some details obscured the attachment contains:
>
> BEGIN:VCALENDAR
> VERSION:2.0
> METHOD:PUBLISH
> BEGIN:VEVENT
> DTSTART:properly-formatted
> DTEND:properly-formatted
> DTSTAMP:properly-formatted
> LOCATION:
> SUMMARY:Concur Travel Itinerary
> DESCRIPTION:Lots of stuff
>  with about 80 lines of description. All indented properly.
> UID:properly-formatted
> PRIORITY:3
> TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
> END:VEVENT
> END:VCALENDAR
>
> I can live without the ics files, so fixing this is not a priority for
> me.  If there is someone interested in figuring this out, I've saved an
> email and can answer questions.  I got lost trying to follow the lisp
> code paths for attachments, so I'm not sure whether it's the text or the
> base64 that is being handed off to icalendar.
>
> R Horn
> rjhorn at alum.mit.edu

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Olivier BERGER 
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Ingenieur Recherche - Dept INF
Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, Evry (France)