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Defect #8093

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Incoming email with internal emails as attachments isn't processed properly

Added by Sergey Prosin almost 13 years ago. Updated almost 2 years ago.

Status:
New
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
-
Category:
Email receiving
Target version:
-
Start date:
2011-04-07
Due date:
% Done:

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Description

Our remine system checks email account regularly for new emails. If we send any email to special address system processes it very good, but if we send an email with other email inside (we use MS Outlook feature "Send as attachement" for emails) then the email will be processed incorrectly and there won't be any attachements inside created issue. Obviously this is some special case in processing.


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letter_example.png (50.6 KB) letter_example.png Screenshot of the email processed incorrectly Sergey Prosin, 2011-04-07 09:35
This_is_an_issue_title.msg (32.5 KB) This_is_an_issue_title.msg Sergey Prosin, 2011-04-12 11:43
This_is_an_issue_title__unicode_.msg (34 KB) This_is_an_issue_title__unicode_.msg Previous message in unicode format Sergey Prosin, 2011-04-12 11:43
This_is_an_issue_title.eml (5.89 KB) This_is_an_issue_title.eml Sergey Prosin, 2011-04-13 11:02
msgToEml.patch (1.22 KB) msgToEml.patch Joel Thompson, 2012-08-22 08:12
outlook_attachment.diff (1.12 KB) outlook_attachment.diff Dealing with outlook element attachments Sergey Prosin, 2013-01-28 06:56
issue.png (5.86 KB) issue.png Jean-Philippe Lang, 2014-01-03 15:20
Add_function_to_extract_Outlook__msg_attachments_and_handle_them_correctly_as_attachments_.patch (1.58 KB) Add_function_to_extract_Outlook__msg_attachments_and_handle_them_correctly_as_attachments_.patch Dirty patch for Redmine 4.2.3 Jan Catrysse, 2022-06-22 16:56

Related issues

Related to Redmine - Defect #15793: Problems with recieving emails with attached .msg filesClosedEvgeniy Cn

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Is duplicate of Redmine - Defect #5994: Creating new issue via email submission strips attached emailsNew2010-07-29

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Actions #1

Updated by Sergey Prosin almost 13 years ago

Any thoughts how to fix or check it?

Actions #2

Updated by Etienne Massip almost 13 years ago

Could you please post the most simple / light test mail which fail to be processed by Redmine so that the issue can be reproduced it easily ?

Actions #3

Updated by Sergey Prosin almost 13 years ago

Sure. This are 2 msg files of the message: one just in Unicode format.

Actions #4

Updated by Sergey Prosin almost 13 years ago

Unfortunately, outlook doesn't have built-in capabilities for saving emails as emls.
I've converted the email to eml format with some external tool. I'm not sure if it is the same content as processed by the receiver (We use "rake redmine:email:receive_pop3" approach). Is there any way to catch exactly the same content? (Say, extended information in log or something else)

Actions #5

Updated by Sergey Prosin almost 13 years ago

Hi, any update about the issue?
Can I help with it?

Actions #6

Updated by Etienne Massip almost 13 years ago

Actually, it's a duplicate of #5994 but I keep it open since there is more details.

Actions #7

Updated by Joel Thompson over 11 years ago

I spent half the day learning ruby so I could fix this today. So I have uploaded the patch that I came up with for Redmine 1.3.3 but I made this patch to work with the latest in the git repo.

It's really simple because Tmail has already converted the attachment object to EML and saves it to Redmine as "noname" so windows cannot open the file, I tried manually opening it with outlook and adding .msg to the file but no go. Then I looked up the code where it is saving the attachments and made it write it directly to the file system, then I found that it is already an EML. So all this patch does is if the attachment meets the 'message/rfc822' content type requirement then I name the file attachment.eml before it saves it to Redmine. I have also tried sending attachments inside an email attached as an attachment and it all comes through fine.

The patch is for app/models/mail_handler.rb.

Actions #8

Updated by Sergey Prosin over 11 years ago

Unfortunately, that doesn't help in any way. After some tests we discovered that the internal email in this case doesn't look like attachement at least system think so.
We used this code for check (mail_handler.rb)
--------------
def add_attachments(obj)
if email.has_attachments?
email.attachments.each_with_index do |attachment, i|
print "attachment.content_type = "
print attachment.content_type

--------------
and there wasn't any output like attachment.content_type = smth

I should also say that in our case there is no noname file in Redmine after email was processed.

To sum that, I think the problem is that ruby mechanisms can't understand the structure of such kind of emails. And that is very sad.

Looking forward to hearing from you, Joel.

Actions #9

Updated by Joel Thompson over 11 years ago

Hmm, interesting.

I'm afraid I cannot help with that one, as the attachments are coming through but Redmine just didn't know how to handle them.

Keep in mind I am using 1.3.3 here, and Redmine uses Tmail for the mail handling.

So you are using an older version which cannot handle the Outlook .msg files at all?

Actions #10

Updated by Sergey Prosin over 11 years ago

As I said we are using Redmine 1.1.2. May be there is a simple script which we can use for discovering our issues nature?
This is the list of gems we have:
actionmailer (3.2.8, 2.3.14, 2.3.5, 2.3.2)
actionpack (3.2.8, 2.3.14, 2.3.5, 2.3.2)
activemodel (3.2.8)
activerecord (3.2.8, 2.3.14, 2.3.5, 2.3.2)
activerecord-mysql2-adapter (0.0.3)
activeresource (3.2.8, 2.3.14, 2.3.5, 2.3.2)
activesupport (3.2.8, 2.3.14, 2.3.5, 2.3.2)
allison (2.0.3)
arel (3.0.2)
builder (3.0.0)
bundler (1.1.5)
cgi_multipart_eof_fix (2.5.0)
coderay (1.0.7)
daemons (1.1.9, 1.0.10)
echoe (3.1.1)
erubis (2.7.0)
fastercsv (1.5.5)
fastthread (1.0.1 i386-mswin32)
fiveruns_tuneup (0.8.20)
gem_plugin (0.2.3)
gemcutter (0.7.1)
highline (1.6.13, 1.5.1)
hike (1.2.1)
hoe (3.0.8)
i18n (0.6.0, 0.5.0, 0.4.2)
journey (1.0.4)
json_pure (1.7.5)
mail (2.4.4)
mime-types (1.19)
mongrel (1.1.5 x86-mswin32-60)
mongrel_service (0.3.4 i386-mswin32)
multi_json (1.3.6)
mysql (2.8.1 x86-mswin32, 2.7.3 mswin32)
mysql2 (0.3.11 x86-mswin32-60)
net-ldap (0.3.1)
pik (0.2.8)
polyglot (0.3.3)
rack (1.4.1, 1.1.3, 1.0.1)
rack-cache (1.2)
rack-ssl (1.3.2)
rack-test (0.6.1)
rails (2.3.14, 2.3.5, 2.3.2)
rake (0.9.2.2, 0.8.7)
rmagick (2.10.0 mswin32)
ruby-openid (2.2.0, 2.1.8)
rubyforge (2.0.4, 1.0.3)
sprockets (2.1.3)
sqlite3 (1.3.6 x86-mswin32-60)
sqlite3-ruby (1.2.3 mswin32)
thor (0.16.0)
tilt (1.3.3)
treetop (1.4.10)
tzinfo (0.3.33)
win32-service (0.5.2 mswin32)

Any ideas, Joel?

Actions #11

Updated by Sergey Prosin about 11 years ago

Hi again. We've just migrated to latest redmine version (2.2.0 to the moment). The issue is still here. So obviously that wasn't related with old redmine version we used before update.
Current list of gems:
actionmailer (3.2.11)
actionpack (3.2.11)
activemodel (3.2.11)
activerecord (3.2.11)
activeresource (3.2.11)
activesupport (3.2.11)
ansi (1.4.3)
arel (3.0.2)
aws-sdk (1.6.9)
bcrypt-ruby (3.0.1 x86-mingw32)
bigdecimal (1.1.0)
bluecloth (2.1.0 x86-mingw32)
builder (3.0.0)
bundler (1.2.3, 1.0.21)
coderay (1.0.6)
coffee-rails (3.2.2)
coffee-script (2.2.0)
coffee-script-source (1.3.3)
crack (0.3.1)
daemons (1.1.8)
diff-lcs (1.1.3)
erubis (2.7.0)
eventmachine (1.0.0 x86-mingw32)
execjs (1.4.0)
fastercsv (1.5.4)
hike (1.2.1)
hoe (3.0.6)
httparty (0.8.3)
i18n (0.6.0)
io-console (0.3)
journey (1.0.4)
jquery-rails (2.1.3, 2.0.3)
json (1.5.4)
mail (2.4.4)
metaclass (0.0.1)
mime-types (1.19, 1.18)
mini_magick (3.4)
mini_portile (0.3.0)
minitest (2.5.1)
mocha (0.12.3)
multi_json (1.3.6)
multi_xml (0.5.1)
mustache (0.99.4)
mysql2 (0.3.11 x86-mingw32, 0.2.18)
net-ldap (0.3.1)
nokogiri (1.5.5 x86-mingw32, 1.4.7 x86-mingw32)
polyglot (0.3.3)
prototype-rails (3.2.1)
rack (1.4.1)
rack-cache (1.2)
rack-mount (0.8.3)
rack-openid (1.3.1)
rack-ssl (1.3.2)
rack-test (0.6.1)
rails (3.2.11)
railties (3.2.11)
rake (0.9.2.2)
rake-compiler (0.8.1)
rdoc (3.12, 3.9.4)
RedCloth (4.2.9 x86-mingw32)
rmagick (2.13.1)
rspec (2.11.0)
rspec-core (2.11.1)
rspec-expectations (2.11.2)
rspec-mocks (2.11.1)
ruby-openid (2.1.8)
rubygems-update (1.8.24)
rvm (1.11.3.5)
sass (3.1.20)
sass-rails (3.2.5)
sprockets (2.4.5, 2.2.1, 2.1.3, 2.1.2)
sqlite3 (1.3.6 x86-mingw32)
sqlite3-ruby (1.3.2 x86-mingw32)
subexec (0.2.2)
test-unit (2.5.2)
thin (1.3.1)
thor (0.15.4, 0.14.6)
tilt (1.3.3)
treetop (1.4.10)
turn (0.9.6)
tzinfo (0.3.33)
uglifier (1.2.6)
uuidtools (2.1.3)
yard (0.8.1)

Actions #12

Updated by Sergey Prosin about 11 years ago

Hi! Finally we've been able to deal with this issue. The problem was this kind of attachments in emails generated by outlook was stored not like attachment but as part of multipart message with the following header

------=_NextPart_000_01C9_01CDF973.EB5E8D50
Content-Type: message/rfc822
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: attachment

We've created special patch for this case (attached)

I'm not an expert in ruby so that is obvoisly not a state of the art piece of code and I would be honored if someone would rewrite this to follow ruby, RoR, and Redmine guidelines.
Also that would be great if this code after revision will be added in Redmine core.

Actions #13

Updated by Evgeniy Cn about 10 years ago

Bug still exists, checked on 2.3.1 stable, solution above doesn't work, any ideas how to fix it ?

Thank you.

Actions #14

Updated by Daniel Felix about 10 years ago

  • Related to Defect #15793: Problems with recieving emails with attached .msg files added
Actions #15

Updated by Jean-Philippe Lang about 10 years ago

I've just made a quick test with the attached sample email This_is_an_issue_title.eml and it works fine. The issue is created with the test email as attachment, see below. Could you attach the content of your email for which it doesn't work?

Actions #16

Updated by Björn Lässig over 9 years ago

I just ran in the same error. After analyzing:

It is not a question which attachment you attach. The Question is how.
Look at the raw text of your Mails. If you attach with this, the attachment is ignored by redmine.

--GPJrCs/72TxItFYR
Content-Type: message/rfc822
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Return-path: <bla@nix>
[...some mail...]

If you use this (with a name option), the attachment will be attached to your ticket.

--GPJrCs/72TxItFYR
Content-Type: message/rfc822
 name="withname.eml" 
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Return-path: <bla@nix>
[...some mail...]

my Details:
Redmine version 2.5.2.stable
Ruby version 1.9.3-p194 (2012-04-20) [x86_64-linux]

Actions #17

Updated by Dennis Buehring almost 9 years ago

Sergeys patch worked for me with a minor change, because part.content_disposition does not just contain "attachment" but a longer string...

Example:
#<Mail::Part:32266040, Multipart: false, Headers: <Content-Type: message/rfc822>, <Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit>, <Content-Disposition: attachment; creation-date="Thu, 16 Apr 2015 07:32:25 GMT"; modification-date="Thu, 16 Apr 2015 07:32:25 GMT">>

This is the modified block from Sergeys patch:

logger.info "Checking multipart" 
if email.parts
  email.parts.each do |part|
    p part.content_disposition
    if part.content_disposition =~  /attachment/i
      logger.info  "Found email attachment in parts section" 
      contents = part.decoded.gsub(0x0a.chr, 0x0d.chr+0x0a.chr) # this is to change newline type in attachment
      logger.info  "Trying to parse it as email" 
      attachment_email = Mail.new(contents)
      p attachment_email
      obj.attachments << Attachment.create(:container => obj,
                      :file => contents,
                      :filename => attachment_email.subject + ".eml",
                      :author => user,
                      :content_type => part.content_type)
      logger.info  "Attachment added" 
    end
  end
end
logger.info "Attachements added" 
Actions #18

Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA almost 9 years ago

Sergey Prosin wrote:

Hi! Finally we've been able to deal with this issue. The problem was this kind of attachments in emails generated by outlook was stored not like attachment but as part of multipart message with the following header

------=_NextPart_000_01C9_01CDF973.EB5E8D50
Content-Type: message/rfc822
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: attachment

We've created special patch for this case (attached)

I'm not an expert in ruby so that is obvoisly not a state of the art piece of code and I would be honored if someone would rewrite this to follow ruby, RoR, and Redmine guidelines.
Also that would be great if this code after revision will be added in Redmine core.

I think it should be fixed by mail gem.
https://github.com/mikel/mail/issues/851

Actions #19

Updated by Library Systems Dept almost 7 years ago

For what it is worth, I don't think this has ever worked for us.

Every 'Forward as Attachment' email that Redmine has touched only had the body text included in the resulting issue, not the attachments. We use Microsoft Exchange as the mail server and Microsoft Outlook as the email client. The oldest version we have installed is Outlook 2010, but later installations are all 2016. We've tested with Outlook 2010, 2013 and 2016, all with the same results.

We generally run the latest Redmine release version. Details for our installation:

bin/about

sh: 1: darcs: not found
sh: 1: hg: not found
sh: 1: cvs: not found
sh: 1: bzr: not found
sh: 1: git: not found
Environment:
  Redmine version                3.3.3.stable.16539
  Ruby version                   2.3.1-p112 (2016-04-26) [x86_64-linux-gnu]
  Rails version                  4.2.7.1
  Environment                    production
  Database adapter               Mysql2
SCM:
  Subversion                     1.9.3
  Filesystem
Redmine plugins:
  no plugin installed

bundle list

Gems included by the bundle:
  * actionmailer (4.2.7.1)
  * actionpack (4.2.7.1)
  * actionpack-action_caching (1.1.1)
  * actionpack-xml_parser (1.0.2)
  * actionview (4.2.7.1)
  * activejob (4.2.7.1)
  * activemodel (4.2.7.1)
  * activerecord (4.2.7.1)
  * activesupport (4.2.7.1)
  * addressable (2.4.0)
  * arel (6.0.3)
  * builder (3.2.2)
  * bundler (1.11.2)
  * coderay (1.1.1)
  * concurrent-ruby (1.0.2)
  * css_parser (1.4.5)
  * erubis (2.7.0)
  * globalid (0.3.7)
  * htmlentities (4.3.4)
  * i18n (0.7.0)
  * jquery-rails (3.1.4)
  * json (1.8.3)
  * loofah (2.0.3)
  * mail (2.6.4)
  * mime-types (3.1)
  * mime-types-data (3.2016.0521)
  * mimemagic (0.3.2)
  * mini_portile2 (2.1.0)
  * minitest (5.9.1)
  * mysql2 (0.3.21)
  * net-ldap (0.12.1)
  * nokogiri (1.6.8.1)
  * protected_attributes (1.1.3)
  * rack (1.6.4)
  * rack-openid (1.4.2)
  * rack-test (0.6.3)
  * rails (4.2.7.1)
  * rails-deprecated_sanitizer (1.0.3)
  * rails-dom-testing (1.0.7)
  * rails-html-sanitizer (1.0.3)
  * railties (4.2.7.1)
  * rake (11.3.0)
  * rbpdf (1.19.2)
  * rbpdf-font (1.19.1)
  * rdoc (4.3.0)
  * redcarpet (3.3.4)
  * request_store (1.0.5)
  * rmagick (2.16.0)
  * roadie (3.2.0)
  * roadie-rails (1.1.1)
  * ruby-openid (2.3.0)
  * sprockets (3.7.0)
  * sprockets-rails (3.2.0)
  * thor (0.19.1)
  * thread_safe (0.3.5)
  * tzinfo (1.2.2)
  * yard (0.9.5)

Actions #20

Updated by David Doležal almost 3 years ago

I tested this on 4.1.1stable and still is a problem. In my situation Redmine reject incoming email. No new issue, no new issue answer.

Actions #21

Updated by Jan Catrysse almost 2 years ago

This indeed still an issue on Redmine 4.2.3.stable.

Sending a message to Redmine, from Outlook 2019 with a .msg file attached (a mail as attachment) does not work.

It seems the mail is parsed as a message and not as an attachment. This is blocking because we have a rule, removing everything after the first horizontal line.
Hence, the reason we are sending (customer) mails as an attachment.

The patch is not working because `app\models\mail_handler.rb` has changed completely.

Could someone point me in a direction, where and how the attachments are handled now?

Actions #22

Updated by Jan Catrysse almost 2 years ago

I was able to fix this on a very dirty way, with the code from above... but this should be cleaned up by someone more proficient.

I am adding a patch file for Redmine 4.2.3.

I added this code to app/models/mail_handler.rb at the top of the add_attachments method.

    logger.info "Checking multipart" 
    if email.parts
      email.parts.each do |part|
        if (part.content_disposition =~  /attachment/i) && (part.content_type = "message/rfc822")
          logger.info  "Found email attachment in parts section" 
          contents = part.decoded.gsub(0x0a.chr, 0x0d.chr+0x0a.chr) # this is to change newline type in attachment
          logger.info  "Trying to parse it as email" 
          attachment_email = Mail.new(contents)
          obj.attachments << Attachment.create(:container => obj,
                                               :file => contents,
                                               :filename => attachment_email.subject + ".eml",
                                               :author => user,
                                               :content_type => part.content_type)
          logger.info  "Attachment added" 
        end
      end
    end
    logger.info "Attachements added" 

I really hope someone could help to add this in a more neat way.

Actions #23

Updated by Jan Catrysse almost 2 years ago

This is a link to a probable fix for the mail gem, maybe it helps:

https://github.com/mikel/mail/pull/1389/commits/c0dfe57ef74bbcd8c54ed06abb28f29aba9d5d19

File: lib/mail/attachments_list.rb

@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@ def initialize(parts_list)
      @content_disposition_type = 'attachment'
      parts_list.map { |p|
        if p.mime_type == 'message/rfc822'
-          Mail.new(p.body.encoded).attachments
+          parts = []
+          parts << p if p.attachment?
+          parts.concat Mail.new(p.body.encoded).attachments
        elsif p.parts.empty?
          p if p.attachment?
        else
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