Comparing with the Haskell based notmuch-web, while slightly slower to
render a browser page with the same search terms as nmweb, I can view the
email which causes nmweb to throw the encoding exception just fine in it. I
guess something in that implementation is able to handle encoding
differently.
Regards,
  Matt

On Tue, 31 Oct 2017, 21:32 Matthew Lear, <matt@bubblegen.co.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 7:21 PM, Brian Sniffen <bts@evenmere.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> > I'm no Python expert, but from a quick google it would seem like the
>> cause
>> > of such an exception is related to not using utf-8.
>>
>> Neat.  So to get there, this has to be a text/html part.  It has to have
>> been decoded, either with the declared content type or with ascii.  If a
>> \u201c (left double quote) showed up, it didn't get decoded as
>> ascii---and indeed, it looks like the content-type specifies latin-1.
>> But now when we try to encode back, using the same latin-1, it fails?
>> That's really neat.
>>
>> > Brian - do you think something needs modifying in nmweb.py to cater for
>> > this type of thing, or is this somehow related my own mailstore (not
>> sure
>> > why that would be as my messages haven't been modified).
>>
>> Lots of mail has busted encoding.  I've done some defensive work against
>> that---look at decodeAnyway and shed a tear for purity---but clearly not
>> enough.  Can you send me a message that causes the problem?
>>
>
> I'll need to fix up the text in the message because it's confidential.
> That should be easy enough to do.
> I'll send it to you once I've done that.
>
> One other thing - it looks like accessing attachments should work, but
> I've seen messages in my local set up here which have attachments shown,
> but I've not been able to retrieve them.
> Not sure what would cause that. Also some messages which are tagged as
> having attachments, don't have them shown by nmweb.
>
> FWIW this link (
> https://nmweb.evenmere.org/show/CACMMjMLecmXopb8AATjE3UuCnNLOO%2B5Nmev5X8K-UostDEUdrQ%40mail.gmail.com)
> has the tag attachment applied to the message, but there is no attachment
> shown.  And another (
> https://nmweb.evenmere.org/show/87d31artti.fsf%40inf-8657.int-evry.fr).
>
> Maybe text/plain only emails are the ones which aren't problematic w.r.t.
> having their attachments shown?
> Cheers,
> --  Matt
>
>
>