From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org, notmuch@freelists.org
Subject: changing behaviour of notmuch show --part=1
Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 07:32:17 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878tlpyyfi.fsf@tethera.net> (raw)
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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.
d
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next reply other threads:[~2017-05-22 10:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-22 10:32 David Bremner [this message]
2017-05-22 21:06 ` changing behaviour of notmuch show --part=1 Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-05-23 11:17 ` David Bremner
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