From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: WIP: filter out envelope headers in notmuch-insert.
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2022 22:15:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k0dwvps2.fsf@tethera.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <164488761286.17471.15404760359666744352@noble.neil.brown.name>
NeilBrown <neil@brown.name> writes:
> And on digging into postfix a bit, it seem that when forwarding to a
> program, it *doesn't* quote other "From " lines in the email, so
> splitting up the input would break things. I wonder if that is a bug...
> the documentation is clear on the details of delivering to a program
It's a least partly "mbox is trainwreck, and they probably don't really
want to do mbox". Imagine a "From " line inside a signed part. But I
really don't know the intent of including a "From " line.
> So it seems... In the case of postfix the sender information is provided
> both in "From " and "Return-Path:", so just stripping "From " would be
> safe. It is hard to argue against the extra caution of retaining the
> from line in an "X-Envolope-from" though.
>
> Thanks,
> NeilBrown
Thanks for thinking about these design issues with me.
d
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-15 2:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-12 2:55 WIP: filter out envelope headers in notmuch-insert David Bremner
2022-02-12 2:55 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] test: start new corpus of test messages for indexing code David Bremner
2022-02-12 2:55 ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] test: add known broken test for insert with mbox as input David Bremner
2022-02-12 2:55 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] WIP: escape envelope from David Bremner
2022-02-12 11:34 ` WIP: filter out envelope headers in notmuch-insert David Bremner
2022-02-13 14:06 ` David Bremner
[not found] ` <164481580222.17471.7090984749734305531@noble.neil.brown.name>
2022-02-14 11:16 ` David Bremner
2022-02-14 22:23 ` NeilBrown
2022-02-14 23:52 ` David Bremner
2022-02-15 1:13 ` NeilBrown
2022-02-15 2:15 ` David Bremner [this message]
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