bug#52871: 29.0.50; weird bug with Gnus, can't have "^From" in `message-hidden-header's

bug#52871: 29.0.50; weird bug with Gnus, can't have "^From" in `message-hidden-header's

[Emanuel Berg via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors]

I had this - try it, only with the "^From" line uncommented.

(setq message-hidden-headers '("^Face"
                               ;; "^From"
                               "^Mail-Copies-To"
                               "^References"
                               "^X-Draft-From"
                               "^X-Face") )

If you then send a mail, you get

  mail-extract-address-components: Invalid address: nil

I always thought that, `message-hidden-headers', a mere
interface setting so it took me several days to find this
bug ...


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bug#52871: 29.0.50; weird bug with Gnus, can't have "^From" in `message-hidden-header's

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> writes:

> I had this - try it, only with the "^From" line uncommented.
>
> (setq message-hidden-headers '("^Face"
>                                ;; "^From"
>                                "^Mail-Copies-To"
>                                "^References"
>                                "^X-Draft-From"
>                                "^X-Face") )
>
> If you then send a mail, you get
>
>   mail-extract-address-components: Invalid address: nil

I'm unable to reproduce this problem.

Can you give a step-by-step recipe, starting with "emacs -Q", for how to
reproduce the problem?

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bug#52871: 29.0.50; weird bug with Gnus, can't have "^From" in `message-hidden-header's

[Emanuel Berg via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors]

Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

>> I had this - try it, only with the "^From" line uncommented.
>>
>> (setq message-hidden-headers '("^Face"
>>                                ;; "^From"
>>                                "^Mail-Copies-To"
>>                                "^References"
>>                                "^X-Draft-From"
>>                                "^X-Face") )
>>
>> If you then send a mail, you get
>>
>>   mail-extract-address-components: Invalid address: nil
>
> I'm unable to reproduce this problem.
>
> Can you give a step-by-step recipe, starting with "emacs
> -Q", for how to reproduce the problem?

With -Q to send a mail doesn't work for other reasons, do you
have a minimal Gnus setup for nnml and SMTP, perhaps? Or just
what variables need to be filled in?

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bug#52871: 29.0.50; weird bug with Gnus, can't have "^From" in `message-hidden-header's

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Emanuel Berg via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

> With -Q to send a mail doesn't work for other reasons, do you
> have a minimal Gnus setup for nnml and SMTP, perhaps? Or just
> what variables need to be filled in?

It'll prompt you for an SMTP server etc, so nothing should need to be
filled in.

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bug#52871: 29.0.50; weird bug with Gnus, can't have "^From" in `message-hidden-header's

[Emanuel Berg via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors]

Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

>> With -Q to send a mail doesn't work for other reasons, do
>> you have a minimal Gnus setup for nnml and SMTP, perhaps?
>> Or just what variables need to be filled in?
>
> It'll prompt you for an SMTP server etc, so nothing should
> need to be filled in.

But then it fails for another reason, "Sending failed: 553
Relaying disallowed ..."

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bug#52871: 29.0.50; weird bug with Gnus, can't have "^From" in `message-hidden-header's

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> writes:

>>> With -Q to send a mail doesn't work for other reasons, do
>>> you have a minimal Gnus setup for nnml and SMTP, perhaps?
>>> Or just what variables need to be filled in?
>>
>> It'll prompt you for an SMTP server etc, so nothing should
>> need to be filled in.
>
> But then it fails for another reason, "Sending failed: 553
> Relaying disallowed ..."

Have you made any progress in debugging this issue?

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bug#52871: 29.0.50; weird bug with Gnus, can't have "^From" in `message-hidden-header's

[Michael Heerdegen]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Have you made any progress in debugging this issue?

I can reproduce the original recipe.

Lars, did you remove the comment delimiters in

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(setq message-hidden-headers '("^Face"
                               ;; "^From"
                               "^Mail-Copies-To"
                               "^References"
                               "^X-Draft-From"
                               "^X-Face") )
#+end_src

when you tried to reproduce the issue?

Michael.

bug#52871: 29.0.50; weird bug with Gnus, can't have "^From" in `message-hidden-header's

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> I can reproduce the original recipe.
>
> Lars, did you remove the comment delimiters in
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> (setq message-hidden-headers '("^Face"
>                                ;; "^From"
>                                "^Mail-Copies-To"
>                                "^References"
>                                "^X-Draft-From"
>                                "^X-Face") )
> #+end_src
>
> when you tried to reproduce the issue?

If by that you mean use

(setq message-hidden-headers '("^Face"
                               "^From"
                               "^Mail-Copies-To"
                               "^References"
                               "^X-Draft-From"
                               "^X-Face") )

then yes.  Perhaps there's some other customisation option that also
affects how this works?

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bug#52871: 29.0.50; weird bug with Gnus, can't have "^From" in `message-hidden-header's

[Michael Heerdegen]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Perhaps there's some other customisation option that also affects how
> this works?

Not that I knew.  I can reproduce the issue using the defaults of M-x
gnus-mock-start.

Did you actually try to send a message?  With Gnus Mock it's impossible
here to reply to any of the INBOX messages using that value of
`message-hidden-headers' and send successfully.

Michael.

bug#52871: 29.0.50; weird bug with Gnus, can't have "^From" in `message-hidden-header's

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> Did you actually try to send a message?  With Gnus Mock it's impossible
> here to reply to any of the INBOX messages using that value of
> `message-hidden-headers' and send successfully.

I don't use Gnus-mock or anything.  Here's my recipe:

emacs -Q
M-: (setq message-hidden-headers '("^Face"
                               "^From"
                               "^Mail-Copies-To"
                               "^References"
                               "^X-Draft-From"
                               "^X-Face") ) RET
C-x m
<edit the headers so they're valid>
C-c C-c
smtp RET
quimby.gnus.org RET
n

No errors.

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bug#52871: 29.0.50; weird bug with Gnus, can't have "^From" in `message-hidden-header's

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Fri, 21 Jan 2022 10:15:30 +0100, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> said:

    Lars> Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:
    >> Did you actually try to send a message?  With Gnus Mock it's impossible
    >> here to reply to any of the INBOX messages using that value of
    >> `message-hidden-headers' and send successfully.

    Lars> I don't use Gnus-mock or anything.  Here's my recipe:

    Lars> emacs -Q
    Lars> M-: (setq message-hidden-headers '("^Face"
    Lars>                                "^From"
    Lars>                                "^Mail-Copies-To"
    Lars>                                "^References"
    Lars>                                "^X-Draft-From"
    Lars>                                "^X-Face") ) RET
    Lars> C-x m
    Lars> <edit the headers so they're valid>
    Lars> C-c C-c
    Lars> smtp RET
    Lars> quimby.gnus.org RET
    Lars> n

As Michael points out: I think this only happens when youʼre replying
to an existing message, not composing a new one.

Robert
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bug#52871: 29.0.50; weird bug with Gnus, can't have "^From" in `message-hidden-header's

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:

> As Michael points out: I think this only happens when youʼre replying
> to an existing message, not composing a new one.

Ah, missed that.  Now fixed in Emacs 29.

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