Attachments of type "Text/Plain" are not attached if more than one attachment is sent

[hju@…]

I'm facing a strange effect with attachments.

We use ​blat 2.6.2 to send logfiles from batchjobs using the "-attach" parameter. If there is only one file "file1.txt", this file of type "TEXT/PLAIN" is attached and processed fine with email2trac (means: attached to a new ticket)

I've extended the processing to send three attachments:

• file1.txt
• file2.txt
• file3.dimport

All files are simple text-files

In this case, file3 is of type "APPLICATION/OCTET-STREAM" (depends on extension, i guess). Only file3.dimport is attached. The other files are ignored (no warning or error).

I changed the blat parameter to "-attacht" to attach the logs as Text-Attachments. The mail-attachments are now all of type "TEXT/PLAIN", but nothing is attached by email2trac (no warning or error)

Looking at the code, it themes clear because this attachments are explicitly excluded in def get_message_parts(self, msg):

    def get_message_parts(self, msg):
    ...
        for part in msg.walk():
            ...
            ## Save all non plain text message as attachment
            #
            if not content_type in ['text/plain']:

Strange that a single TEXT/PLAIN attachment is processed by email2trac...

Maybe it's a solution to remove this restriction, but I think this is not restricted without reason. In older versions of email2trac, this part was handled different...

[bas]

text/plain files are handled differently. There are not attached. The text is put into the ticket, see:

• body_text = self.get_body_text(message_parts)

I will do some tests tomorrow with multiple text/plain attachments.

[hju@…]

There are not attached. The text is put into the ticket, see:

Just for clearification. If I send the txt-files as "Inline-Attachment" (-attachi parameter of blat) they are include in the ticket description.

But this is not what I want with a log-file of a 600kb and some thousand lines...

[bas]

Just a question can you attach a raw email message with multiple text/plain attachment. So i can do some tests? Thanks for the clarification

[hju@…]

I've send two mails (to basv@...) via blat. One with the files attached as binaries and the other with the files attached as text.

[bas]

(In [569]) text/plain attachments are not attached when they are marked as not inline, see #270

[bas]

Replying to hju@…:

I've send two mails (to basv@...) via blat. One with the files attached as binaries and the other with the files attached as text.

Thanks for the emails. I just found the problem and committed a fix.

[bas]

fixed in version 2.4.2