On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 09:53:37PM +0100, Carl Worth wrote: > On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:26:25 +0100, Mike Hommey <mh+notmuch@glandium.org> wrote: > > - for some reason, xapian doesn't want to add the document corresponding > > to this old spam message: notmuch->xapian_db->add_document throws an > > exception. > > I think things had just gone wrong long before then. I *did* see it throwing an exception from there. The sad thing is that I can't reproduce the problem anymore :-/ > > I can provide the spam if necessary, or can continue debugging the issue > > with some guidance. > > Thanks for providing it. It turns out that the giant Message-Id value > wasn't causing the problem. Instead the message was corrupt by having a > stray new line at the third line. (So GMime is seeing only the first two > lines of headers). We *used* to have working code to detect this kind of > file as "not an email" but again, this broke when we changed > notmuch_message_get_header to return "" instead of NULL for missing > headers. Interestingly, when I first traced on what message the crash was happening, I did see notmuch having the message-id in the message_id variable. FWIW, that was using c05c3f1. I'll see if I can reproduce my segfault again when starting from scratch again, and will also give a try to your patches. Cheers, Mike