Debian Bug report logs - #918806
/usr/bin/mail.mailutils: Pipe text to mail and attach a csv sets content type to application/octet-stream not multipart/mixed

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jason Davey <jdavey@enable.services>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: /usr/bin/mail.mailutils: Pipe text to mail and attach a csv sets content type to application/octet-stream not multipart/mixed

Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 14:16:09 +0000

Package: mailutils
Version: 1:3.5-1
Severity: important
File: /usr/bin/mail.mailutils

Dear Maintainer,

Command
===========
echo "body text" | /usr/bin/mail -s "some subject" -A "somefile.csv" my@email.com

Working
===========
Mailutils version 3.1.1
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="1621296231-1547034776=:19256"

--1621296231-1547034776=:19256
Content-ID: <20190109115256.19256@xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain

body text

--1621296231-1547034776=:19256
Content-ID: <20190109115256.19256.1@xxx>
Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=somefile.csv
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=somefile.csv
...
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Not Working
===========
Mailutils version 3.5
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="somefile.csv"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
...
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.utf8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.utf8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages mailutils depends on:
ii  guile-2.2-libs                  2.2.4+1-1
ii  libc6                           2.28-2
ii  libfribidi0                     1.0.5-3
ii  libgc1c2                        1:7.6.4-0.4
ii  libgnutls30                     3.6.5-2
ii  libgsasl7                       1.8.0-8+b2
ii  libkyotocabinet16v5             1.2.76-4.2+b1
ii  libldap-2.4-2                   2.4.47+dfsg-1
ii  libmailutils5                   1:3.5-1
ii  libncurses6                     6.1+20181013-1
ii  libpam0g                        1.1.8-3.8
ii  libpython2.7                    2.7.15-5
ii  libreadline7                    7.0-5
ii  libtinfo6                       6.1+20181013-1
ii  libwrap0                        7.6.q-27
ii  mailutils-common                1:3.5-1
ii  postfix [mail-transport-agent]  3.3.2-1

mailutils recommends no packages.

Versions of packages mailutils suggests:
pn  mailutils-doc  <none>
pn  mailutils-mh   <none>

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Message #10 received at 918806@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@debian.org>

To: Jason Davey <jdavey@enable.services>, 918806@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#918806: /usr/bin/mail.mailutils: Pipe text to mail and attach a csv sets content type to application/octet-stream not multipart/mixed

Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 10:59:37 -0400

Control: found 918806 3.5-2

On Wed 2019-01-09 14:16:09 +0000, Jason Davey wrote:
> Command
> ===========
> echo "body text" | /usr/bin/mail -s "some subject" -A "somefile.csv" my@email.com

I can confirm that the same misbehavior happens when invoked as "mailx",
fwiw.  This is actually a data loss issue, because the body text sent on
stdin is entirely discarded.  As such, i'd consider even elevating this
to a release-critical bug report.

fwiw, if i try to be clever and get it to consider the incoming text by
using:

   mailx --content-type=text/plain --attach-fd=0 -s 'some subject' -A somefile.csv me@example.com

then i end up with an extremely weird multipart/mixed structure:

[…]
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="225007733-1552488518=:22450"
Subject: this is a test
To: <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
X-Mailer: mail (GNU Mailutils 3.5)
Message-Id: <20190313144838.DAAF4204C8@fifthhorseman.net>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 10:48:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>

--225007733-1552488518=:22450
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Disposition: attachment
Content-ID: <20190313104838.22450.1@alice.fifthhorseman.net>
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable


--225007733-1552488518=:22450
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Disposition: attachment
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-ID: <20190313104838.22450.1@alice.fifthhorseman.net>

bW9ua2V5IG1hbiB0ZXN0aW5nCg==
--225007733-1552488518=:22450
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; name="hi.txt"
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="hi.txt"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-ID: <20190313104838.22450.2@alice.fifthhorseman.net>

aGkK
--225007733-1552488518=:22450--


Regards,

        --dkg

Message #17 received at 918806@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>

To: bug-mailutils@gnu.org

Cc: 918806@bugs.debian.org

Subject: version 3.5: mail/mailx discard message body when attachment is supplied

Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 11:06:30 -0400

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

Hi GNU Mailutils developers--

Are you aware of this report in debian about mail discarding stdin when
being used to send an e-mail with an attachment?

    https://bugs.debian.org/918806

I can confirm that it's happening with mailutils 3.5, but have not
tested 3.6 against it, and i see no mention of the fix of such a severe
bug in the NEWS file in the 3.6 tarball.

It would be great to get some feedback on the debian bug report about
how/whether this is already known or fixed upstream.

Thanks for many years of great functionality in Mailutils!

Regards,

        --dkg

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Message #22 received at 918806@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua>

To: "Daniel Kahn Gillmor" <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>

Cc: <bug-mailutils@gnu.org>, <918806@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Re: [bug-mailutils] version 3.5: mail/mailx discard message body when attachment is supplied

Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 22:50:05 +0200

Hi Daniel,

> Are you aware of this report in debian about mail discarding stdin when
> being used to send an e-mail with an attachment?
> 
>     https://bugs.debian.org/918806

Thanks for reporting. I fixed it in 43214185092e714e0c233bf196f571bba5c17be0.

Meanwhile, you can use the --mime option as a workaround:

 echo "body text" | /usr/bin/mail --mime -s "some subject" -A "somefile.csv" my@email.com

Regards,
Sergey

Message #27 received at 918806-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org>

To: 918806-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#918806: fixed in mailutils 1:3.5-3

Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 09:04:07 +0000

Source: mailutils
Source-Version: 1:3.5-3

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
mailutils, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 918806@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org> (supplier of updated mailutils package)

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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 09:32:01 +0100
Source: mailutils
Architecture: source
Version: 1:3.5-3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org>
Changed-By: Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org>
Closes: 918806
Changes:
 mailutils (1:3.5-3) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Set gbp's debian-branch to buster.
   * Cherry-pick patch from upstream git to avoid discarding stdin when
     mail is used to send email with attachments (closes: #918806).
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