[imp] Dealing With Broken Messages

Michael M Slusarz slusarz at horde.org
Thu Nov 11 16:07:54 UTC 2010


Quoting Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at opengroupware.us>:

> Horde 3.3.4 / IMAP H3 4.3.4 / PHP 5.2.12
> PEAR: Mail_Mime 1,5,2  Mail_mimeDecode 1.5.0
>
> What is the best means to deal with broken messages?
>
> I have user's receiving messages from a vendor / customer that seem to
> be broken (I don't see a MIME separator in the message source; it
> doesn't appear to be a multi-part message.  The message body appears
> like -
>
> begin 666 mail8619.pdf
> M)5!$1BTQ+C8*)>3CS](*,2`P(&]B:@I;+U!$1B]);6%G94(O26UA9V5#+TEM
> M86=E22]497AT70IE;F1O8FH*-B`P(&]B:@H\/"],96YG=&@@-R`P(%(*+T9I
> M;'1E<B]&;&%T941E8V]D90H^/@IS=')E86T*>)S-5EMOZD80?N=7C)2'YB`,
> MZPO7ATH$G(;3<"EV6O5QL1>\E?'2]9J$_OK.&FP,2=1$/57/)`BSEV]FOKG
> ....

And it works in IMP as well, but you have to enable uudecoding.  Set  
'uuencode' to true in imp/config/mime_drivers.php.  Note that this can  
be a large performance hit (every text/plain message needs to be  
scanned for uudecode data).

michael

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