Attachments are added to tickets, but are broken

[planktr@…]

I have email2trac working on a Windows server using fetchmail+Cygwin. I have also had luck with GetMail?. Messages are being retrieved from Exchange 2003 server. I've tried using POP3 and IMAP. With either tool, attachments are being created on the tickets, but they don't open. For example, an image attachment is added to the ticket, but when clicked on, the file appears as a broken image. In the trac attachments folder, there are image files that are of the expected size, but they don't open.

Is there a configuration setting that would impact this?

When using GetMail?, i enabled the extract option and the attachments were stored separately, so i assume the attachments are arriving with the messages, it just seems like they aren't making it through the email2trac script.

Any ideas?

[cc@…]

Our office has been using email2trac 0.30 in Windows Server 2003 using Windows built-in SMTP. We've been having the very same issue.

Broken attachments based on our testing:

• Any type of Office document (xls and doc, Office11)
• Image files (jpeg, png)
• Archives (zip, 7z)

Plain text documents do work, so we're not sure if the issue lies in the way Exchange is giving us binary attachments or in the way email2trac handles them.

[liana@…]

Hi

We have the same problem with broken attachments. Using Windows Server 2003 and fetchmail.

Not sure if it has to do with the charset.

[martin.poeschmann@…]

I found a solution for this problem. The attachment is opened as text file not as binary file. Maybe it works for linux this way, but for windows, the code has to be changed. The Ticket (#110) contains a fix which works for me, but i am not a python-programer.

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This is the author of comment:1. Martin, your suggestion from ticket #110 has done the trick for us. Binary attachments are now working correctly. Thanks for the fix!

[planktr@…]

Replying to martin.poeschmann@eiskonzept.com:

I found a solution for this problem. The attachment is opened as text file not as binary file. Maybe it works for linux this way, but for windows, the code has to be changed. The Ticket (#110) contains a fix which works for me, but i am not a python-programer.

Bingo! This code change worked for me also. I have no idea what it does, but attachments are being added intact now that I have added the changes. By the way, now that I know it's working, I can say that using GetMail? for Windows (​http://pages.interlog.com/~tcharron/getmail.html) is working for me and doesn't require cygwin.

[bas]

applied patch #110