[imp] Base64-only message not quoted in reply

Robin Bankhead horde at headbank.co.uk
Wed Jan 15 00:27:44 UTC 2014


Quoting Robin Bankhead <horde at headbank.co.uk>:

> Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:
>
>> Quoting Robin Bankhead <horde at headbank.co.uk>:
>>
>>> Didn't want to ticket this automatically in case it's put down to  
>>> bad message format (I'm no expert but this seems a common reply to  
>>> such issues).
>>>
>>> The (redacted) message below is all base64-encoded text/plain and  
>>> has no plaintext part.  It views fine, but when replying to it, it  
>>> is not quoted.  We have no issues with the original HTML +  
>>> quoted-printable messages from the same sender, but their replies  
>>> to our replies always come in this base64-only format (I wonder if  
>>> their Barracuda spam firewall is doing this?)
>>
>> This *faintly* sounds like an issue that may have occurred many  
>> years ago, but IIRC it was either an issue with a specific PHP  
>> version (possibly dealing with variable references) or has long  
>> since been fixed in IMP and/or Horde.
>>
>> michael
>>
> Indeed, I was going off this old ticket[1], though the difference is  
> that person got raw base64 in the reply quote; I get nothing.
>
> PHP version is 4.3.1; currently I can (if necessary) upgrade to a  
> later 4.3 version, but I'm not able to go beyond that without full  
> code-review of the other application on the same server.
>
> Horde platform is groupware-H5 pear on Windows/Apache2.2, all up to  
> date excepting imp-6.1.5 (and I see nothing in changelog that might  
> address this).
>
> Thanks,
> Robin Bankhead
>
Arggg - sorry, the above should have read PHP 5.3.1 (Thanks for the  
catch, Simon).



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