[rt-devel] Bug

[Ian Grant]

> RT 3.0.2 does not forward the headers when it reports a possible bounce. I 
> just get the log entries and a message to the admin address saying
> 
> "RT thinks this message may be a bounce"
> 
> followed by the body of the suspect message.
> 
> The headers would be more useful in this case.

More on this: the headers in fact are sent with the message, but they are 
banged up against the boundary and there are no MIME-part-headers for the 
part. MUAs will therefore silently ignore the extraneous (as they see it) 
MIME-part-headers. See the message below for an example.

The MIME-part-headers should read

Content-Type: message/rfc822
Content-Description: forwarded message

there should then be a CRLF CRLF followed by the headers of the forwarded 
message. Here's the example of the erroneous message rt-3-0-2 currently sends 
out:

From: rt-nospam at cl.cam.ac.uk
To: rt-admin-nospam at cl.cam.ac.uk
Subject: RT Bounce: Re: [rt.cl.cam.ac.uk #88] too long filename problem still
X-RT-Loop-Prevention: rt.cl.cam.ac.uk
Message-Id: <E19LfNu-0002Id-00 at filo.cl.cam.ac.uk>
Sender: WWW <www-nospam at cl.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 09:37:10 +0100

This is a multi-part message in MIME format...

------------=_1054283830-25298-11
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary

RT thinks this message may be a bounce

------------=_1054283830-25298-11
Received: from mta1.cl.cam.ac.uk ([128.232.0.15] helo=wisbech.cl.cam.ac.uk 
ident
=[EqFcDYvRZAYdn0TIDiUaFY5rVsCfSOMn]) by rt.cl.cam.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.36 
#1
) id 19LfNu-0002IY-00 for win-admin at rt.cl.cam.ac.uk; Fri, 30 May 2003 09:37:10 
+
0100
Received: from filo.cl.cam.ac.uk ([128.232.8.162] ident=[HMEbLffge2JoguGR/K991I
4ru73DW2xr]) by wisbech.cl.cam.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.092 #1) id 
19LfNu-0008D6
-00; Fri, 30 May 2003 09:37:10 +0100
Received: from www by filo.cl.cam.ac.uk with local (Exim 3.01 #1) id 19LfNt-000
2IM-00; Fri, 30 May 2003 09:37:09 +0100
RT-Attach-Message: yes
Subject: Re: [rt.cl.cam.ac.uk #88] too long filename problem still 


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