From 93fbf1c63fd493f27d39a972b9c1084a78a0a1da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 16:40:00 +1900 Subject: [PATCH] Re: Parsing regression with gmime-2.6? --- 3d/8e51271f1527cc13583065de40d8691a785b3a | 73 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 73 insertions(+) create mode 100644 3d/8e51271f1527cc13583065de40d8691a785b3a diff --git a/3d/8e51271f1527cc13583065de40d8691a785b3a b/3d/8e51271f1527cc13583065de40d8691a785b3a new file mode 100644 index 000000000..075a9c256 --- /dev/null +++ b/3d/8e51271f1527cc13583065de40d8691a785b3a @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ +Return-Path: +X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD1B1431FAE + for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 13:40:01 -0800 (PST) +X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org +X-Spam-Flag: NO +X-Spam-Score: 0 +X-Spam-Level: +X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[none] + autolearn=disabled +Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) + by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) + with ESMTP id QBW3uQQDZqcO for ; + Thu, 8 Mar 2012 13:40:01 -0800 (PST) +Received: from che.mayfirst.org (che.mayfirst.org [209.234.253.108]) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 306E1431FB6 + for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 13:40:01 -0800 (PST) +Received: from [192.168.13.75] (lair.fifthhorseman.net [108.58.6.98]) + by che.mayfirst.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A083DF970 + for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 16:39:58 -0500 (EST) +Message-ID: <4F592730.2040908@fifthhorseman.net> +Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:40:00 -0500 +From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor +User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:9.0) Gecko/20120125 Icedove/9.0.1 +MIME-Version: 1.0 +To: notmuch +Subject: Re: Parsing regression with gmime-2.6? +References: <87d38w2e7h.fsf@zancas.localnet> + <1331058417-13776-1-git-send-email-amdragon@mit.edu> + <87wr6xmlml.fsf@zancas.localnet> + <87vcme3kf6.fsf@pip.fifthhorseman.net> + <874ntybwxv.fsf@servo.finestructure.net> +In-Reply-To: <874ntybwxv.fsf@servo.finestructure.net> +Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed +Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit +X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 +Precedence: list +Reply-To: notmuch +List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." + +List-Unsubscribe: , + +List-Archive: +List-Post: +List-Help: +List-Subscribe: , + +X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 21:40:01 -0000 + +On 03/08/2012 04:32 PM, Jameson Graef Rollins wrote: + +> I actually agree with this position. mbox files are not proper email +> messages, so if gmime does not explicitly support parsing them then we +> really can't expect it to parse them. + +i think the point here is that gmime used to support parsing them and +now it doesn't. + +So if you've got a pre-existing notmuch index (built from when gmime +*did* parse them) and you're now running notmuch linked against a gmime +that *doesn't* parse them, then notmuch search will produce references +to messages that notmuch show can't produce output for. + +While i appreciate wanting to be sure that we're working with +well-formed files, I don't have a good answer for what the right thing +to do is, if gmime upstream agrees with your assessment of the situation. + +yuck, + + --dkg -- 2.26.2