Bug 6190

Summary:	Email headers added to messages in MS Outlook
Product:	Taglibs	Reporter:	Gabriel J Zimmerman <gabe>
Component:	Mailer Taglib	Assignee:	Tomcat Developers Mailing List <dev>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	martinc
Priority:	P3
Version:	1.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	other

Description Gabriel J Zimmerman 2002-02-01 20:26:33 UTC

I am using the mailer tag library, and users of MS Outlook who receive email
sent by the tag library also get the headers of the message:

Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Status:

Comment 1 rich 2002-02-11 23:29:06 UTC

You're supposed to get the headers.  Whether or not you see them in outlook
should depend on settings in the mail client that determine if headers should be
viewed or not.

Comment 2 Gabriel J Zimmerman 2003-04-24 18:52:43 UTC

This is not an Outlook setting. This is definately a bug. The reasons I know
this are the following:
1) It happens in all Outlook clients
2) The headers appear in the body of the message not as a special display.
3) Headers are not shown in other messages for the people using these Outlook
clients.
4) I created a class that used JavaMail to send mail directly (no tags), and it
sent the mail to the person and the headers did not appear.

Comment 3 Gabriel J Zimmerman 2003-04-24 20:30:59 UTC

For further information, the headers displayed in the body are shown below as
they are shown in the message:

Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Comment 4 Gabriel J Zimmerman 2003-06-11 17:48:34 UTC

Another thing I have noticed and a work around is that if instead of using the
setRecipient tags and the subject tag I just use the <mt:mail subject="..."
to="..." from="..."> it works fine and does not add the extra headers.
Unfortunately, this means for my purposes, I have to change the tld to make the
rt value modifiable.

Also, the difference in the source between these two methods are that if I use
the tags (causing the problem), the source is:
<snip>
To: Gabe <gabe@groundzero.com>
Subject: My subject
        
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
</snip>

and in the fixed way, the space is removed:
<snip>
To: gabe@groundzero.com
Subject: My subject
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
</snip>

Comment 5 Martin Cooper 2003-12-09 06:58:53 UTC

Is this perhaps a problem with extra whitespace in the JSP page in which the 
tags are being used? Could you attach the *exact* JSP code that causes this 
problem? (Posting it as an attachment to this bug report would be best.)

Comment 6 Martin Cooper 2003-12-09 07:17:15 UTC

Add the taglibs-dev list, so that people can see changes to this bug report.

Comment 7 Martin Cooper 2004-02-02 01:40:53 UTC

I do not see this issue. I have been using Outlook and Outlook Express for 
testing, and have not been able to reproduce the problem. If you are still 
seeing this with the most recent version of the taglib, please attach a 
complete sample JSP page to this bug report, and reopen.