Re: changing behaviour of notmuch show --part=1

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>]

On Mon 2017-05-22 07:32:17 -0300, David Bremner wrote:
> The current behaviour of "notmuch show --part=1 --raw" is somewhat
> peculiar. This is supposed to be the message body, but if the message is
> multipart, it also includes the headers. This seems to be a direct
> translation of an implimentation of quirk of gmime. In gmime 3.0 this
> quirk goes away, and the behaviour of notmuch consequently changes,
> unless we do something about it. I actually think the new behaviour
> makes more sense (you only get the headers with part=0). There seem to
> be several options
>
> 1) Bug-for-Bug-compatibility: Add special case code for gmime-3.0 to
>    output headers.
>
> 2) Allow-varying-output: Consider the previous behaviour a bug, fixed by
>    using gmime-3.0.  This makes it hard for people to rely on, although
>    how one relies on it currently since it varies by message is a
>    mystery.
>
> 3) Fix the alleged bug: special case the output of the body with
>    gmime-2.6 to avoid outputting headers.

i favor (2) for the short term, while treating (3) as an open bug to be
fixed.

thanks for identifying this, David.

       --dkg