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From: Justus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>,  notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Cc: 749890@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: [Jakub Wilk] Bug#749890: python3-notmuch: missing header in mbox message -> NullPointerError
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 21:54:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160314205410.4648.16140@thinkbox.jade-hamburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k393l86x.fsf@zancas.localnet>

Hi,

Quoting David Bremner (2014-05-30 15:14:46)
> this looks like a bug in the python bindings to me
> 
> Package: python3-notmuch
> Version: 0.18-3
> Severity: minor
> 
> If a message starts with the "From " postmark (i.e., it's in the mbox 
> format), and you ask the get_header() method for a non-existent header, 
> it raises NullPointerError, instead of returning empty string.
> 
> Now, I realize that support for indexing mbox files has been dropped, 
> but users might still have them on disk, indexed by an old version of 
> notmuch. This is how I discovered this bug.
> 
> I've attached my crafted mail archive (which I indexed with wheezy's 
> notmuch), and the script that I used for testing:

I cannot reproduce this neither with master nor with 0.21-3 from
unstable.

Justus

      reply	other threads:[~2016-03-14 20:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-30 13:14 [Jakub Wilk] Bug#749890: python3-notmuch: missing header in mbox message -> NullPointerError David Bremner
2016-03-14 20:54 ` Justus Winter [this message]

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