Here is a draft patch to add support for sending compressed MIME
emails using mime-construct. I choosed this over mimencode from
metamail as the former is able to add the required headers while the
latter depend on us to do it. I prefer to leave the responsibitilty
of getting the MIME headers right to someone else, and thus selected
mime-construct.
A few things need to be decided or done before it can go into the
archive:
- Is the MIME type a good one? Really wanted to use simliar headers
as the HTTP headers, but mime-construct do not support x-gzip as a
content encoding. The content is text, and the encoding is both
x-gzip and base64. No idea how to represent that in MIME, so I
picked application/x-popcon-compressed as the content type instead.
- The receiving end need to be written. mimedecode might perhaps be
used there?
Here is my proposed client side patch, relative to the current CVS:
Index: debian/changelog
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/popcon/popularity-contest/debian/changelog,v
retrieving revision 1.199
diff -u -3 -p -u -r1.199 changelog
--- debian/changelog 4 Jul 2005 21:48:19 -0000 1.199
+++ debian/changelog 4 Jul 2005 23:09:26 -0000
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ popularity-contest (1.30) UNRELEASED; ur
missing, to make it compatible with dpkg versions before 1.10.
Drop versioned dependency on dpkg. This make a backport to woody
trivial.
+ * Send compressed MIME emails when recommended package
+ mime-construct is installed. (Closes: #149425)
* Translations (Done by Christian Perrier)
- Updated French from Christian Perrier
Index: debian/control
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/popcon/popularity-contest/debian/control,v
retrieving revision 1.13
diff -u -3 -p -u -r1.13 control
--- debian/control 4 Jul 2005 21:51:03 -0000 1.13
+++ debian/control 4 Jul 2005 23:09:26 -0000
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Standards-Version: 3.6.1
Package: popularity-contest
Architecture: all
Depends: ${misc:Depends}, exim4 | mail-transport-agent, ${perl:Depends}
-Recommends: cron
+Recommends: cron, mime-construct
Suggests: anacron
Provides: popcon
Description: Vote for your favourite packages automatically
Index: debian/cron.weekly
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/popcon/popularity-contest/debian/cron.weekly,v
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -u -3 -p -u -r1.9 cron.weekly
--- debian/cron.weekly 4 Jul 2005 21:39:27 -0000 1.9
+++ debian/cron.weekly 4 Jul 2005 23:09:26 -0000
@@ -50,16 +50,40 @@ run_popcon > $POPCON
# try to email the popularity contest data
if [ -x "`which sendmail 2>/dev/null`" ]; then
- (
- if [ -n "$MAILFROM" ]; then
- echo "From: <$MAILFROM>"
- echo "Sender: <$MAILFROM>"
+ if [ -x "`which mime-construct 2>/dev/null`" ]; then
+ # Make compresssed email
+ if [ -n "$MAILFROM" ]; then
+ gzip -9 < $POPCON | mime-construct \
+ --type application/x-popcon-compressed \
+ --encoding base64 --file - \
+ --subject "popularity-contest submission" \
+ --to "$MAILTO" \
+ --header "From: <$MAILFROM>" \
+ --header "Sender: <$MAILFROM>" \
+ --output # | do_sendmail
+ else
+ gzip -9 < $POPCON | mime-construct \
+ --type application/x-popcon-compressed \
+ --encoding base64 --file - \
+ --subject "popularity-contest submission" \
+ --to "$MAILTO" \
+ --output # | do_sendmail
+ fi
+ else
+ # Not able to make compressed email, send uncompressed
+ (
+ if [ -n "$MAILFROM" ]; then
+ echo "From: <$MAILFROM>"
+ echo "Sender: <$MAILFROM>"
+ fi
+ echo "To: $MAILTO"
+ echo "Subject: popularity-contest submission"
+ echo "MIME-Version: 1.0"
+ echo "Content-Type: text/plain"
+ echo
+ cat $POPCON
+ ) | do_sendmail
fi
- echo "To: $MAILTO"
- echo "Subject: popularity-contest submission"
- echo
- cat $POPCON
- ) | do_sendmail
else
logger -t popcon "unable to submit report using sendmail."
fi
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