[PATCH] emacs/notmuch-show: Work around errors where a part lacks a content-type

Subject: [PATCH] emacs/notmuch-show: Work around errors where a part lacks a content-type

Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2021 13:31:54 -0500

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From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor

This is an inadequate workaround to the concerns raised in
id:87wnwu8tzf.fsf@fifthhorseman.net -- when it is installed, a
particular kind of malformed message (in particular, one containing a
message/rfc822 part that is improperly transfer-encoded with base64)
won't break the rendering.

However, with this applied, there are definitely still problems.

For example, the rendering of such a message shows internal errors for
me:

    [ attachment.eml: message/rfc822 ]

    !!! Bodypart handler `notmuch-show-insert-part-message/rfc822' threw an error:
    !!! Wrong type argument: char-or-string-p, nil
    !!! Bodypart handler `notmuch-show-insert-part-*/*' threw an error:
    !!! Symbol’s value as variable is void: gnus-newsgroup-charset

But it's better than causing the whole thread to fail to render.

I don't know what the right solution is, so i'm offering this
workaround in the spirit of harm reduction.

(note: this is on the "release" branch -- this function has changed in
master, so i don't think it applies there, but i haven't tested further)
---
 emacs/notmuch-show.el | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/emacs/notmuch-show.el b/emacs/notmuch-show.el
index b08ceb97..625a5d55 100644
--- a/emacs/notmuch-show.el
+++ b/emacs/notmuch-show.el
@@ -575,7 +575,9 @@ message at DEPTH in the current thread."
       (push (list content-id msg part) notmuch-show--cids)))
   ;; Recurse on sub-parts
   (let ((ctype (notmuch-split-content-type
-		(downcase (plist-get part :content-type)))))
+		(downcase (if (plist-get part :content-type)
+                              (plist-get part :content-type)
+                            "text/plain")))))
     (cond ((equal (car ctype) "multipart")
 	   (mapc (apply-partially #'notmuch-show--register-cids msg)
 		 (plist-get part :content)))
-- 
2.29.2
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