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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] test: add known broken test for message-id with embedded spaces.
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2023 12:12:53 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87351x6ruy.fsf@tethera.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230527172051.1738824-1-david@tethera.net>

David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:

> According to my reading of RFC5322, there is an obsolete syntax for
> Message-Id which permits folding whitespace (i.e. to be removed /
> ignored by parsers). In [1] Paul Wise observed that notmuch removed
> whitespace on indexing, but does not do any corresponding
> normalization of queries. Mark the latter as a bug by adding a failing
> test.

Applied to master. I'm curious how many such message ids there are in
the wild. It is not particularly hard to fix this in the query
parser(s), but it is a bit tedious (e.g. a new field processor would
need to be added for the id prefix in the infix query processor).

      reply	other threads:[~2023-07-09 15:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-27 17:20 [PATCH] test: add known broken test for message-id with embedded spaces David Bremner
2023-07-09 15:12 ` David Bremner [this message]

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