question about mbox and MIME

question about mbox and MIME

[David Bremner]

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Hi gmime experts;

In notmuch we are using  g_mime_parser_set_format (parser, GMIME_FORMAT_MBOX)
to try to distinguish mboxes containing multiple messages from  those containing
only a single message [1]. The attached message breaks this, because it has
an unescaped "From " inside a (text/plain) attachment.

My question is if you consider this a gmime bug, or should mbox really
take precedence over mime structure? I guess I can see both points of
view, although it would be convenient for notmuch if gmime would
consider wrapping in mime structure as a kind of escaping.

cheers,

David

[1]: this is one of those regrettable backwards compatibility things. We
tried to get rid of it about 7 years ago, and failed.


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I figured out the race condition in the tests. The previous test was
still running when the failing test started, the joys of using a shared
emacs for running all of the tests in one file.

The attached diff is split into the the commits that introduce the tests
in question in my working series, but you should be able to just apply
it on top of the posted series if you want.


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From fc88cba7f1f37b9cf3b296eace2422dd0e173502 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2022 21:05:05 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] test fixups

---
 test/T315-emacs-tagging.sh | 9 ++++-----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/test/T315-emacs-tagging.sh b/test/T315-emacs-tagging.sh
index c9e3e53a..c26413ce 100755
--- a/test/T315-emacs-tagging.sh
+++ b/test/T315-emacs-tagging.sh
@@ -119,7 +119,8 @@ for mode in search show tree unthreaded; do
       (notmuch-$mode \"$os_x_darwin_thread\")
       (notmuch-test-wait)
       (execute-kbd-macro \"+tag-to-be-undone-$mode\")
-      (notmuch-tag-undo))"
+      (notmuch-tag-undo)
+      (notmuch-test-wait))"
     count=$(notmuch count "tag:tag-to-be-undone-$mode")
     test_expect_equal "$count" "0"
 
@@ -128,9 +129,7 @@ for mode in search show tree unthreaded; do
       (notmuch-$mode \"$os_x_darwin_thread\")
       (notmuch-test-wait)
       (execute-kbd-macro \"+one-$mode\")
-      (notmuch-test-wait)
       (execute-kbd-macro \"+two-$mode\")
-      (notmuch-test-wait)
       (notmuch-tag-undo)
       (notmuch-test-wait)
       (execute-kbd-macro \"+three-$mode\"))"
@@ -143,7 +142,6 @@ for mode in search show tree unthreaded; do
       (notmuch-$mode \"$os_x_darwin_thread\")
       (notmuch-test-wait)
       (execute-kbd-macro \"+one-$mode\")
-      (notmuch-test-wait)
       (execute-kbd-macro \"+two-$mode\")
       (notmuch-tag-undo)
       (notmuch-test-wait)
@@ -159,7 +157,8 @@ for mode in search show tree unthreaded; do
       (notmuch-$mode \"$os_x_darwin_thread\")
       (notmuch-test-wait)
       (execute-kbd-macro \"+tag-to-be-undone-$mode\")
-      (execute-kbd-macro (kbd \"C-x u\")))"
+      (execute-kbd-macro (kbd \"C-x u\"))
+      (notmuch-test-wait))"
     count=$(notmuch count "tag:tag-to-be-undone-$mode")
     test_expect_equal "$count" "0"
 done
-- 
2.30.2


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