ECO NUMBER: VAXMIME01_073
PRODUCT: OpenVMS VAX OPERATING SYSTEM V7.3
UPDATE PRODUCT: OpenVMS VAX OPERATING SYSTEM V7.3
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1 KIT NAME:
VAXMIME01_073
2 KITS SUPERSEDED BY THIS KIT:
None.
3 KIT DEPENDENCIES:
3.1 The following remedial kit(s), or later, must be installed
BEFORE installation of this, or any required kit:
None.
3.2 In order to receive all the corrections listed in this kit,
the following remedial kits, or later, should also be
installed:
None.
4 KIT DESCRIPTION:
4.1 Version(s) of OpenVMS to which this kit may be applied:
OpenVMS VAX V7.3
4.2 Files patched or replaced:
o [SYSEXE]MIME.EXE (new image)
o [SYSHLP]MIME$HELP.HLB
5 PROBLEMS ADDRESSED IN VAXMIME01_073 KIT
o Mime message corruption can occur for messages created with
OpenVMS Mime that have text of more than just a few lines.
Messages appear to be truncated or text may appear garbled or
out of context. This happens when the textual message part has
a length (when combined with the Mime header area) that exceeds
1024 characters.
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Images Affected:
- [SYSEXE]MIME.EXE
- SYSHLP]MIME.EXE
o Multipart messages created with OpenVMS Mime may cause the
error:
"Invalid boundary marker" when attempting to read (decode)
the message.
Images Affected:
- [SYSEXE]MIME.EXE
- [SYSHLP]MIME$HELP.HLB
o The file name (known as the Disposition file name), would be
added more than once when multiple edits and saves occur.
Images Affected:
- [SYSEXE]MIME.EXE
- [SYSHLP]MIME$HELP.HLB
o A SYSTEM-F-ACCVIO error can occur when a SAVE is performed on a
message when a message part has previously been removed.
Images Affected:
- [SYSEXE]MIME.EXE
- [SYSHLP]MIME$HELP.HLB
o When the MIME> LIST command is used for a message with only one
main part, (a single part message), no attachment number is
listed. This may confuse the user as to which attachment
number to specify with the EXTRACT command, which requires an
attachment number. On-line help has been modified to specify
attachment number one for single part messages, as follows:
EXTRACT
Format: EXTRACT/ATTACHMENT=attachment-number [filename]
NOTE: The /ATTACHMENT qualifier is required with EXTRACT.
This qualifier specifies the number of the attachment as
displayed by the LIST command. In a single part message,
no attachment number is displayed. For this case specify
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attachment number one.
Images Affected:
- [SYSEXE]MIME.EXE
- [SYSHLP]MIME$HELP.HLB
o
Error messages can be overwritten or garbled when errors occur
while reading a Mime message.
Images Affected:
- [SYSEXE]MIME.EXE
- [SYSHLP]MIME$HELP.HLB
o Problems occur while attempting to EXTRACT, EDIT, or REMOVE
message parts due to an improper attachment range check or an
illegal range of message part numbers being accepted when
actually invalid. Typically the symptom is either the part
fails to extract due to an erroneous error, or the incorrect
part is extracted, edited, or removed. This may include
removal or extraction of non-message parts or non-leaf
attachments, such as multipart or multipart alternative parts.
Images Affected:
- [SYSEXE]MIME.EXE
- [SYSHLP]MIME$HELP.HLB
o When exiting and prompted to save file, a typographical error
would be accepted as a negative response and the file would not
be saved.
Images Affected:
- [SYSEXE]MIME.EXE
- [SYSHLP]MIME$HELP.HLB
o While reading a message, the screen may be improperly restored
which causes the screen output to be displayed improperly.
This may happen when returning from a spawned process that
provided output to the same screen device, executed commands in
DCL that caused errors, and so forth.
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Images Affected:
- [SYSEXE]MIME.EXE
- [SYSHLP]MIME$HELP.HLB
o Other miscellaneous errors and problems that were corrected
are:
1. Certain file errors were not being reported or handled
properly during opening and editing of a message.
2. Fix regression where multiple SAVEs were not saving the
file and only the first save was being written.
3. Code optimization in remove attachment.
4. If an error occurred during ADD, the message would be
corrupted (there was no message recovery)
5. Under certain situations a message would not be saved
during a SAVE, EXIT, CLOSE, NEW, OPEN, and ^Z operation.
6. Errors would occur while attempting to use the edit command
as defined in MIME$MAILCAP.DAT.
7. No support for edit of HTML attachments (Unix-style file
name parsing.
8. Errors on, or failure to read plain text due to an
erroneous content-type parameter match on text style.
9. Update this version image IDENT, MIME Version and MIME HELP
(MIME$HELP.HLB) to V1.7
10. Updated MIME HELP
Images Affected:
- [SYSEXE]MIME.EXE
- [SYSHLP]MIME$HELP.HLB
o For a large MIME message (262 Mbyte) comprised of 40
attachments, attachments are not listed properly. Observing
the output from the MIME> LIST command and typing Control_S/Q
shows the attachments and the filenames. However, manually
scrolling back to review attachments and filenames results in a
display where attachment numbers and/or most filenames are
omitted. In trying to duplicate the problem, other large
messages with many attachments did not reproduce the problem.
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Images Affected:
- [SYSEXE]MIME.EXE
- [SYSHLP]MIME$HELP.HLB
6 KIT INSTALLATION RATING:
The following kit installation rating, based upon current CLD
information, is provided to serve as a guide to which customers
should apply this remedial kit. (Reference attached Disclaimer of
Warranty and Limitation of Liability Statement)
INSTALLATION RATING:
INSTALL_3 : To be installed by customers experiencing the problems
corrected.
7 INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:
Install this kit with the VMSINSTAL utility by logging into the
SYSTEM account, and typing the following at the DCL prompt:
@SYS$UPDATE:VMSINSTAL VAXMIME01_073 [location of the saveset]
The saveset location may be a tape drive, CD, or a disk directory
that contains the kit saveset.
No reboot is necessary after successful installation of the kit.
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