Closed Bug 59631 Opened 24 years ago Closed 14 years ago

Mozilla Mail can't read vCards / contacts from Outlook clients

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

x86
Other
enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: talvola, Unassigned)

References

Details

(Whiteboard: outlook)

Using Outlook 98 on Windows NT, if you drag a contact (from the Contacts folder) into an e-mail message in Outlook, you get this: ------_=_NextPart_000_01C049E0.1DC1F008 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Description: Test Smith Message-ID: <69C7B7C01316D211B47E0008C7248296025B64A6@faultline.sapient.com> To: Subject: Test Smith Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 00:35:55 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" if you save a Contact as a vCard (from Outlook) and attach it as a file in sending out a message, you get: ------_=_NextPart_000_01C049E0.1DC1F008 Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="Bob Smith.vcf" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Bob Smith.vcf" BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 N:Smith;Bob FN:Bob Smith NOTE:Birthday is 5/6/74 TEL;WORK;VOICE:(408) 123-1233 TEL;CELL;VOICE:(415) 123-1233 EMAIL;PREF;INTERNET:foo@foo.com REV:20001109T000004Z END:VCARD Note that the type is set to octet-stream, and not the official MIME type of a vCard. As a result, you just get an attachment on the e-mail, which if clicked, just generates a pop-up window saying that there is no handle for that MIME type. It would be good if Mozilla mail could recognize one or both of these methods for adding contact information to an e-mail message, and be able to copy these entries into your address book.
dup of bug 29106 ?
I don't think it's a dupe. Bug 29106 deals with not handling the vCard format according to the RFCs. This one deals with how Outlook attaches vCards into an e-mail message.
Reporter is this still a problem in the latest nightlies?
Yes - nothing has changed. Build ID 2000121804
Marking NEW as per commments.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
This looks more like a job for Microsoft than for Mozilla--identifying improperly labeled vCards based on content sounds like a lot of trouble. Does this problem exist in other variants of Outlook (e.g. Outlook Express, Outlook 2000, and bug-fix releases of Outlook 98)?
Bug 67940 suggest a possible solution to this problem (use file extension)
On one of the mailing lists I'm on, quite a few people have vCards - I checked, and the only ones that do display have a MIME setting of text/vCard. Most of the others do have application/octet-stream, but I have found an odd one with a text/plain MIME type. It seems that vCard support has fallen by the wayside? (unless I'm just missing it)
reassigning to ducarroz since I think this is in Mime code.
Assignee: putterman → ducarroz
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Whiteboard: outlook
Target Milestone: --- → Future
> On one of the mailing lists I'm on, quite a few > people have vCards - I checked, and the only ones > that do display have a MIME setting of text/vCard. But note that the *correct* MIME type is 'text/directory'. See RFC 2425 (and RFC 2426).
*** Bug 176806 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
moving some vcard foo to my list.
Assignee: ducarroz → sspitzer
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
> It seems that vCard support has fallen by the wayside? (unless I'm just missing it) yes, it has.
The right solution here is for mail to run application/octet-stream attachments through the unknown content decoder to try to get a type.
This bug was referenced as the mail-specific solution for bug 67940. To add some more information here, the problem is not only with vCards -- in particular, image attachments often have the incorrect mime type associated with them. As such, the summary should probably be altered to reflect this. Relevant text from my comment in the other bug: --------------- This bug is fairly important for the average user. For example, my mother often gets emails containing images that have the incorrect content-type assigned to them. A quote from her: "Previous to downloading Netscape 7.0, it would have automatically opened up the picture. Hope you have some ideas how to fix this." (She previously used netscape 4.7 as her mail client.) Certainly sounds like a 4xp issue to me
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
Assignee: sspitzer → mail
I received an e-mail asking about this, and with Outlook 2003 - if you attach a vCard it shows up with the correct MIME type and Thunderbird has no problems processing it. Not sure if it's worth spending much time on this if it is only an issue with Outlook 98 or other very old products.
Assignee: mail → nobody
Priority: P3 → --
QA Contact: esther → message-display
Target Milestone: Future → ---
WFM with based on reporter's comment 16.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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