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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: Andreas Amann <a.amann@ucc.ie>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: notmuch new: emails with BOM are ignored\r
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+Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 20:34:35 -0300\r
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+Andreas Amann <a.amann@ucc.ie> writes:\r
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+> Could this be a bug in notmuch? Possible emails with BOM are not "legal"\r
+> anyhow, but in my opinion it would be better to simply ignore the BOM.\r
+>\r
+> I am using notmuch 0.18.\r
+\r
+As of 0.18 notmuch is using the gmime mail parser exclusively. It could be a\r
+bug/feature of the gmime library that it rejects such files.\r
+\r
+I've tagged this as a wishlist bug / feature request for now, until\r
+somebody has a chance to track down where exactly the issue is, and how\r
+hard it would be to fix.\r
+\r
+d\r