Bug 55591

Summary:	Supply mailbase for Thunderbird to get mime types from
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	John Richard Moser <nigelenki>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Mozilla Gentoo Team <mozilla>
Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX
Severity:	major
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description John Richard Moser 2004-06-29 09:50:55 UTC

Thunderbird sends rtf and such inline by default; this is annoying and unproductive, and makes certain clients inable to save the attachment due to their poor design.

Aside from Mozilla Bug 249049, we can and should make the following changes to mozilla-thunderbird-0.7.ebuild to assure that a proper /etc/mailcap is installed:

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--- mozilla-thunderbird-0.7.ebuild.orig 2004-06-24 18:37:10.000000000 -0400
+++ mozilla-thunderbird-0.7.ebuild      2004-06-29 12:44:19.916796337 -0400
@@ -41,7 +41,8 @@ RDEPEND="virtual/x11
                =x11-libs/gtk+-1.2*
                >=gnome-base/ORBit-0.5.10-r1 )
        crypt? ( >=app-crypt/gnupg-1.2.1 )
-       >=net-www/mozilla-launcher-1.7-r1"
+       >=net-www/mozilla-launcher-1.7-r1
+       net-mail/mailbase"

 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
        dev-util/pkgconfig"
---CUT HERE---

It's more work than it's worth to try and patch the ebuild; just go add net-mail/mailbase to the RDEPEND.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Merge mozilla-thunderbird with no mail system installed
2. Send rtf attachments to a linux.net e-mail, or to someone with lotus notes, possibly others
3. Watch it get 7b inline text/plaintext encoding and be undownloadable by certain clients.
Actual Results:  
Lotus user couldn't save the attached resume.

Expected Results:  
The resume sent should have been base64 encoded as text/richtext.

Comment 1 John Richard Moser 2004-06-29 10:07:06 UTC

also add app-misc/mime-types please

. . . or not.  I'm still trying to make this work, and thunderbird is STILL sending this crap inline ><  I'm beginning to think TB 0.7 is simply broken.

Comment 2 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-08-03 06:36:37 UTC

John, mailbase is for MTAs, not for MUAs.  No dependency is going to fix this problem in thunderbird.  It needs to be fixed by mozilla.org in a future version.  We'll just have to wait for that to happen.