[JAMES-351] allow "message/disposition-notification" to also attach (excerpts of) the original

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 2.3.0
• Component/s: James Core
• Environment: debian sarge
• Assignee: Norman Maurer
• Reporter: Ralf Hauser
• Created: 17/Jan/05 03:40
• Updated: 09/May/22 02:09
• Resolved: 09/May/22 02:09

Description

org.apache.james.util.mail.handlers.message_disposition_notification.writeTo() blocks anything but Strings.

As per http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2298.html 3 (d), it is ok also: "If the original message or a portion of the message is to be
returned to the sender, it appears as the third component of the multipart/report", therefore the if statement should be replaced by

if (!((aPart instanceof String) || (aPart instanceof MimeMessage)))

{ //as per http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2298.html 3 (d) throw new IOException("Type \"" + aPart.getClass().getName() + "\" is not supported."); }

if ((aPart instanceof MimeMessage)) {
try

{ ((MimeMessage) aPart).writeTo(aStream); return; }

catch (Exception e)

{ //log.error(e.getMessage()); e.printStackTrace(); throw new IOException(e.getMessage()); }

}

multipart/reports of this form are handled well by Thunderbird, their attachments are ignored by MS-Outlook 2003.

Sure, normally such a disposition notification is generated by the UA that james is not to date. But if a UA were to reuse james classes (e.g. a web-app on the server), this might be useful?

If that RFC is relevant, how about also adding it to http://james.apache.org/rfclist.html?