sending mail with swift mailer (php) to gforge email gateway, equal signs (=) at the end of lines

Question

Now, i have another problem with gForge.

I have a form in our intranet to create new trackers in our gforge system. We use Kohana and the Swift Mailer to send smtp emails.

This is what i get (i send the mail as bcc to myself):

Received: from 192.168.150.250 (192.168.150.250) by local
 (192.168.50.10) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 15.1.280.1; Wed, 16 Mar 2011
 08:51:40 +0100
Message-ID: <1300261898.4d80d7e6@192.168.150.250>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 08:51:38 +0100
Subject: Test_Issue Jieha (tracker-17)
From: <test@website.de>
To: <gforge-gateway@gforge.local>
BCC: <test@website.de>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Return-Path: test@website.de
X-MS-Exchange-Organization-AuthSource: local
X-MS-Exchange-Organization-AuthAs: Anonymous
MIME-Version: 1.0

priority:4
assignees: wollmannc
stardate: 03/16/2011
end date: 03/17/2011
Von user:
Name: Christian
email: meine@email.de

Bemerkung:
mein bemerkungstext
testinput: mein input

So everything looks fine. But Gforge is telling me:

Received: from local (192.168.200.19) by
 local (192.168.50.10) with Microsoft SMTP Server id
 15.1.280.1; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 08:51:42 +0100
Received: from gforge.local (centos5 [127.0.0.1])    by
 gforge.local (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DBDED48174    for
 <test@website.de>; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 08:51:42 +0100 (CET)
Received: (from nobody@localhost)    by gforge.local
 (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id p2G7pgvZ004723;    Wed, 16 Mar 2011 08:51:42 +0100
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 08:51:42 +0100
From: <noreply@gforge.local>
Message-ID: <201103160751.p2GgvZ004723@gforge.local>
X-Authentication-Warning: gforge.local: nobody set sender to "GForge" <noreply@gforge.local> using -f
To: <test@website.de>
Reply-To: GForge <noreply@gforge.local>
Subject: =?utf-8?B?RmVobyIGJlaWgQmVhcmJlaXRlbiBkZXIgRW1haWw=?=
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Return-Path: noreply@gforge.local
X-MS-Exchange-Organization-AuthSource: local
X-MS-Exchange-Organization-AuthAs: Anonymous
MIME-Version: 1.0

Ihre Email konnte nicht verarbeitet werden.
Die Anwendung sagte:

* Start Datum ist Erforderlich
* Schlieungs Datum ist Erforderlich
* Close Date must be > Open Date


Ihre Nachricht war:

priority:4
assignees: wollmannc
stardate: 03/16/2011
end d=
ate: 03/17/2011
Von user:
Name: Christian
email: meine@em=
ail.de

Bemerkung:
mein bemerkungstext
testinput: mei=
n input

It tells "the email could not be processed. The application says: a start date is required, a close date is required".

Note the equal signs at the end of some lines. I think that is the maximum line length of "quoted printable" or does the smtp also limit the lines? But why do i get the right mail through BCC? That should be the same mail that gforge gets, right?! Is Gforge doing something with incoming mails?

I'm confused :-( I hope you can help.

Answer 1

It looks like you might be hitting this bug in GForge that prevents mails sent quoted-printable from being parsed correctly.

Your best bet is going to be telling Swift to not use quoted-printable, but I'm not sure how to do that. (I actually want to do this in my own use of Swift...)

Answer 2

GForge guy here. FWIW, starting in GForge 6.3 you can create a custom email address for submitting new Tracker Items directly to a specific project and tracker. No more adding special info to the subject line.

We've also made improvements to our back-end handling of email, to make it more compatible with the quirks of various email clients and exchangers.