Re: [PATCH] Add a few tests for searching LWN emails.

Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a few tests for searching LWN emails.

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:54:46 +0100

To: Matthieu Lemerre, Carl Worth, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: Thomas Schwinge


Hallo!

On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 14:45:19 +0100, Matthieu Lemerre <racin@free.fr> wrote:
> I had already reported this problem in id:"87ipzvk2xh.fsf@free.fr".

Oh, I see!

> Recent versions of GMime perform more robust parsing that fix the
> problem, but unfortunately debian only ship old versions of the package.

In this case, I'm not eager to work around this issue in notmuch -- this
would only complicate the local code, and yet would be redundand in some
months.  (Your mileage may vary.)  That is, we already do rely on the
GMIME library for this parsing (etc.), so that's the place where this
issue needs to be fixed (and has been).  Hopefully, after the imminent
Debian release, the version of the library will be updated, or someone
(we, I guess) will propose backporting this patch, and get it accepted.
(Which may be non-trivial, as that wasn't a simple patch, but instead
sort of a parser re-write, as I understood it.)


> I don't believe we will be able to make all people from whom we receive
> email always send RFC2822-compliant email addresses :)

Indeed.  :-)


Grüße,
 Thomas


PS: Matthieu, interesting how peoples' (that is, our) paths cross again.
:-)
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