From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
To: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Cc: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mime_node_open: skip envelope from lines at the start of messages
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 16:45:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m24ntwecq8.fsf@guru.guru-group.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1331385931-1610-1-git-send-email-david@tethera.net>
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On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 09:25:31 -0400, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:
> From: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>
>
> Some MDAs such as procmail (in MH mode), and exim (doing local
> delivery in some configurations of the appendfile transport) add a
> line to the front of a message with "From " followed by envelope
> sender. Since this is not a proper RFC822 header field, gmime (at
> least since version 2.6) refuses to parse it, unless in mbox mode.
>
> This change reads the line of the file, and if they start with
> "From ", pass the stream to gmime starting from the second line.
>
> This makes mime_node_open more consistent with (but still stricter
> than) the permissive behaviour of notmuch_file_get_header
> (message-file.c), which allows a certain number of "broken_headers".
>
> We avoid putting gmime into mbox mode in case of side effects; this
> leaves the situation of mboxes accidentally indexed by notmuch the
> same as before, namely "undefined behaviour". Ideally they should at
> least be warned by notmuch-new. Although strict rfc822 adherence
> would be one way to detect mboxes, it doesn't seem to fit with the
> spirit or code of message-file.c.
> ---
> This version fixes a few formatting issues, and one bug (the strncmp).
+1
Tomi
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-10 14:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-01 21:39 Internal error on line 296 of mime-node.c David Bremner
2012-03-01 21:57 ` Austin Clements
2012-03-02 2:35 ` David Bremner
2012-03-02 2:35 ` [PATCH 1/2] test: utility function to add a pre-generated message to the database David Bremner
2012-03-02 2:35 ` [PATCH 2/2] test: add new test file for mime parsing David Bremner
2012-03-06 18:26 ` [PATCH] Handle errors in mime_node_open Austin Clements
2012-03-06 22:04 ` Parsing regression with gmime-2.6? David Bremner
2012-03-08 15:35 ` [WIP PATCH] debugging gmime-2.6 fail David Bremner
2012-03-08 18:08 ` David Bremner
2012-03-08 18:27 ` Parsing regression with gmime-2.6? Jameson Graef Rollins
2012-03-08 20:30 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2012-03-08 21:32 ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2012-03-08 21:40 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2012-03-08 21:59 ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2012-03-08 21:48 ` [PATCH] mime_node_open: check if the file is in mbox format, and inform gmime David Bremner
2012-03-08 22:05 ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2012-03-09 10:50 ` Tomi Ollila
2012-03-09 13:31 ` [PATCH] mime_node_open: skip envelope from lines at the start of messages David Bremner
2012-03-09 13:56 ` David Bremner
2012-03-09 16:20 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2012-03-10 13:25 ` David Bremner
2012-03-10 14:45 ` Tomi Ollila [this message]
2012-03-11 1:51 ` [PATCH] Handle errors in mime_node_open David Bremner
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