Defect #5698
redmine:email:receive_imap fails silently for mails with subject longer than 255 characters
| Status: | Closed | Start date: | 2010-06-16 | |
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| Priority: | Normal | Due date: | ||
| Assignee: |  Eric Davis | % Done: | 100% | |
| Category: | Email receiving | |||
| Target version: | 1.0.0 (RC) | |||
| Resolution: | Fixed | Affected version: |
Description
The automatic issue creation from mailbox silently ignores emails which have a subject longer than 255 characters - the model validation for Issue fails, and the mail is ignored.
We ran into this problem while automatically importing exceptions from client sites into Redmine via e-mail (exception messages would sometimes amount to more than 255 characters).
It would be better to just chop the subject off at 255 characters and create the issue like that. Can be modified this way:
in app/models/mail_handler.rb at line 137:
issue.subject = email.subject.chomp[0..254]
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Truncate incoming email subject lines to 255 characters. #5698
Contributed by Jan
History
#1
Updated by Eric Davis almost 11 years ago
- Category set to Email receiving
#2
Updated by Jan from Planio www.plan.io almost 11 years ago
- File 5698.diff added
here's a patch with tests. mails with subject lines that are longer than 255 chars will get chopped off.
#3
Updated by Jan from Planio www.plan.io almost 11 years ago
- % Done changed from 0 to 90
somebody should look over it and then commit...
#4
Updated by Eric Davis almost 11 years ago
- Status changed from New to Closed
- Assignee set to Eric Davis
- Target version set to 1.0.0 (RC)
- % Done changed from 90 to 100
- Resolution set to Fixed
Committed in r3801, thank you for the bug report and patch.