From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F338431FB6 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 14:05:47 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.29 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.29 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, T_MIME_NO_TEXT=0.01] autolearn=disabled Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 28Ly3CMmM71D for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 14:05:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from outgoing-mail.its.caltech.edu (outgoing-mail.its.caltech.edu [131.215.239.19]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C90CC431FAE for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 14:05:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from fire-doxen.imss.caltech.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fire-doxen-postvirus (Postfix) with ESMTP id 564413280B3; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 14:05:46 -0800 (PST) X-Spam-Scanned: at Caltech-IMSS on fire-doxen by amavisd-new Received: from finestructure.net (DHCP-123-180.caltech.edu [131.215.123.180]) (Authenticated sender: jrollins) by fire-doxen-submit (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9540B2E50D70; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 14:05:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by finestructure.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7634E9DE; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 14:05:42 -0800 (PST) From: Jameson Graef Rollins To: David Bremner , notmuch@notmuchmail.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] mime_node_open: check if the file is in mbox format, and inform gmime. In-Reply-To: <1331243295-27324-1-git-send-email-david@tethera.net> References: <87vcme3kf6.fsf@pip.fifthhorseman.net> <1331243295-27324-1-git-send-email-david@tethera.net> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.11.1+266~gadb05cc (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/23.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:05:40 -0800 Message-ID: <87sjhiaguj.fsf@servo.finestructure.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Cc: David Bremner X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 22:05:47 -0000 --=-=-= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 17:48:15 -0400, David Bremner wrote: > From: David Bremner >=20 > It seems that it has always been an error to try to parse an mbox > format file with gmime without calling g_mime_parser_set_scan_from. >=20 > This change reads the first 5 bytes of the file, and if they are "From ", > declares the file to be an mbox. > --- >=20 > This patch seems to fix the problem for me. I don't think the > performance impact should be too bad, but I didn't really test it. As I've stated previously in this thread, I think this behavior is a mistake. This will not result in a proper parsing of an mbox file, and improper or incomplete parsing of mbox files will lead to bad/confusing behavior. We should either completely support mbox files or not support them. Partial support is, imho, a recipe for disaster. We don't currently support them, and it would take a lot of extra work to do so completely. I don't see any harm in just telling users to convert their mbox files into proper message files. jamie. --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJPWS00AAoJEO00zqvie6q8RXQQALFfsAfosiC6gJkJ1ttN9dPw jGFi7pMPx8iKKBv2L4qvMnsKUc7hyODG7aVvRSKtYkmHN6hvpVqZQkKeaJrg6QL2 Nv+2MPhcD8UF4wTmU9gK3NEppmELgJJk4Uu0CkFkpSWUu9c3pfZFoJpOBncIp7Ka skBQd3qr+FayH+cXHfAYekO+nqtFkd6RhOyU4cQSX6FH74a+4/DbV3A5WS5F5Zq/ USdS8L5TKs+TD9zp4w8reHmRDLxiEjNe91lOrPyxQ+3E4KIqEZP6Tr2VMP5coKW0 ZJUIAgRgAr+LAtBC/d4LRh5IkIM/dpLGWPDmyWI8NEOpuBcjIhHDZLcOgjwnQfVY uV/wq+T4XsyHhNJYEbVF6DSsaKK1m07NFpSPkUu15sB3zwgQ4pYmVIQ7pG9gVL1f 2urmepAn6q+hNwK+/qUExCwcwowVuxRvWUoghzzOhfmyBOTnmruNqnSgkAu7cTtT 3ruq+XkP0UyorA6rrQFbT107eWF/B1hHT0IYQti+3/cWuN9IvSOMdrl2/SiUXtDM FQcKuNJiUC8PNHIVRDZrA/9e2AJ25u9I6ixr+FO/K/oN/l82A/zrUk8MuUIe72hQ 1stVgmLiTsc7Xd9uS5eGKzgiljrTmCx1QVos47kK/u6oWJDgBgWLZOcy+Z7BP3lA p6gSjFECXiw0Vo5d+cmm =Nu1y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--