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| -rw-r--r-- | app/models/request_mailer.rb | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/app/models/request_mailer.rb b/app/models/request_mailer.rb index 7e2041b4f..910f38cbe 100644 --- a/app/models/request_mailer.rb +++ b/app/models/request_mailer.rb @@ -177,7 +177,15 @@ class RequestMailer < ApplicationMailer # Class function, called by script/mailin with all incoming responses. # [ This is a copy (Monkeypatch!) of function from action_mailer/base.rb, # but which additionally passes the raw_email to the member function, as we - # want to record it. ] + # want to record it. + # + # That is because we want to be sure we properly record the actual message + # received in its raw form - so any information won't be lost in a round + # trip via TMail, or by bugs in it, and so we can use something other than + # TMail at a later date. And so we can offer an option to download the + # actual original mail sent by the authority in the admin interface (so + # can check that attachment decoding failures are problems in the message, + # not in our code). ] def self.receive(raw_email) logger.info "Received mail:\n #{raw_email}" unless logger.nil? mail = TMail::Mail.parse(raw_email) |