python: open messages in binary mode
authorFlorian Klink <flokli@flokli.de>
Sun, 24 Sep 2017 12:36:11 +0000 (14:36 +0200)
committerDavid Bremner <david@tethera.net>
Mon, 2 Oct 2017 10:21:33 +0000 (07:21 -0300)
currently, notmuch's get_message_parts() opens the file in text mode and passes
the file object to email.message_from_file(fp). In case the email contains
UTF-8 characters, reading might fail inside email.parser with the following exception:

  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/notmuch/message.py", line 591, in get_message_parts
    email_msg = email.message_from_binary_file(fp)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/email/__init__.py", line 62, in message_from_binary_file
    return BytesParser(*args, **kws).parse(fp)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/email/parser.py", line 110, in parse
    return self.parser.parse(fp, headersonly)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/email/parser.py", line 54, in parse
    data = fp.read(8192)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/codecs.py", line 321, in decode
    (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in position 1865: invalid continuation byte

To fix this, read file in binary mode and pass to
email.message_from_binary_file(fp).

Unfortunately, Python 2 doesn't support
email.message_from_binary_file(fp), so keep using
email.message_from_file(fp) there.

Signed-off-by: Florian Klink <flokli@flokli.de>
bindings/python/notmuch/message.py

index cce377d02a8024608bcf840252faae191d937acb..d5b98e4fdfdf5ab19e41fcda61ce0fc57d7b301f 100644 (file)
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ from .tag import Tags
 from .filenames import Filenames
 
 import email
+import sys
 
 
 class Message(Python3StringMixIn):
@@ -587,8 +588,11 @@ class Message(Python3StringMixIn):
 
     def get_message_parts(self):
         """Output like notmuch show"""
-        fp = open(self.get_filename())
-        email_msg = email.message_from_file(fp)
+        fp = open(self.get_filename(), 'rb')
+        if sys.version_info[0] < 3:
+            email_msg = email.message_from_file(fp)
+        else:
+            email_msg = email.message_from_binary_file(fp)
         fp.close()
 
         out = []