Re: [PATCH] lib/cli: pass GMIME_ENABLE_RFC2047_WORKAROUNDS to g_mime_init()

Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib/cli: pass GMIME_ENABLE_RFC2047_WORKAROUNDS to g_mime_init()

Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 15:31:48 -0400

To: notmuch

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From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor

On 09/10/2013 02:51 PM, Jani Nikula wrote:
> As explained by Jeffrey Stedfast, the author of GMime, quoted in [1]:
> 
>> Passing the GMIME_ENABLE_RFC2047_WORKAROUNDS flag to g_mime_init()
>> *should* solve the decoding problem mentioned in the thread. This
>> flag should be safe to pass into g_mime_init() without any bad side
>> effects and my unit tests do test that code-path.

the result of doing this is that there will become legitimately-crafted
subject lines that are now unrepresentable.

I'm always leery of trying to improve support for data that doesn't
follow the standards at the expense of data that *does* follow the
standards.

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