bug related to ical

[Tomi Ollila]

On Tue, Sep 25 2012, Olivier Berger <olivier.berger at it-sudparis.eu> wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I didn't seem to find any followup.
>
> I'm experiencing a similar problem... Anyone with hints on how to solve
> this ?

Can either of you provide an email file that triggers this problem
for others to test ?

Tomi

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