Bug#542344: mutt mangles display of time in From line
I did some investigation last week, write_one_header() is the cause of this, the header gets folded at the : mark using strchr, that function needs to be clever, I will think of a patch ASAP. Cheers Antonio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#542344: mutt mangles display of time in From line
tag 542344 +confirmed upstream forwarded 542344 http://bugs.mutt.org/3331 thanks Hi Craig, I had a look at the code and finding the place where this happens is not so straightforward, so I opened a bug upstream (see the forwarded link). I also ruled out ncurses as root case because the bug also happens on lenny with a backport of 1.5.20-2 Thanks for your bug report, usually upstream is pretty responsive so hopefully the fix will make one of our new releases Cheers Antonio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#542344: mutt mangles display of time in From line
On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 12:14:21PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 07:09:27PM +, Antonio Radici wrote: can you please send us a mail or a mailbox through which we can reproduce this bug with a standard out-of-the-box version of mutt without any muttrc? ummm, no. what a bizarre and slightly disturbing request. 1. i'm not sending anyone a copy of any of my mail, and certainly not to a public bug tracking archive. Hi Craig, I'm sorry if the request is disturbing to you but the reproduciblity is the first thing we ask when it comes to bug reporting if we are not able to reproduce the bug ourselves. Obviously I was looking for a sample and dummy email here, not your most private mail or your secret mailbox. There are many program (for example swaks) that can be used to generate a dummy email, I think that there are better ways to sneak into your mailbox than getting one single mail from your bug request :-) 2. it's got nothing to do with any actual message, the problem is in mutt itself. i just confirmed for myself that it's not my .muttrc either. I ran 'mutt -n -F /dev/null' and the time displayed was still mangled (first digit of the minutes field is displayed as a space) in the From line. I wasn't able to reproduce this because I was using my .muttrc, by trying you command (mutt -n -F /dev/null) I'm able to reproduce it constantly, I will try to work out a patch tonight and send it to the mutt devs, hopefully this will be fixed with the next release. I'm sorry if my response sounded 'weird' but it's still better than no response at all :-) Cheers Antonio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#542344: mutt mangles display of time in From line
On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 08:48:52AM +, Antonio Radici wrote: I'm sorry if the request is disturbing to you but the reproduciblity is the first thing we ask when it comes to bug reporting if we are not able to reproduce the bug ourselves. Obviously I was looking for a sample and dummy email here, not your most private mail or your secret mailbox. There are many program (for example swaks) that can be used to generate a dummy email, I think that there are better ways to sneak into your mailbox than getting one single mail from your bug request :-) yeah, i know all that. i'm not even particularly disturbed. as you say i could attach a dummy message or even a copy of your msg to me (it's already in the archive). it just seems like the sort of question that shouldn't be asked because it encourages poor security on the part of the user...like tech staff should never, ever, under any circumstances ask for a user's password. not in person, and certainly not in email - that just encourages them to respond to phishing. and clued-up users should tell off their techs if they ever do ask a question like that :) I wasn't able to reproduce this because I was using my .muttrc, by trying you command (mutt -n -F /dev/null) I'm able to reproduce it constantly, I will try to work out a patch tonight and send it to the mutt devs, hopefully this will be fixed with the next release. good. so at least we know now that it's not just my system. so have you spotted what's in your .muttrc that changes the time display? I'm sorry if my response sounded 'weird' but it's still better than no response at all :-) no problem. my comment probably sounded stronger than i felt about it. it just seemed a weird question. craig -- craig sanders c...@taz.net.au -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#542344: mutt mangles display of time in From line
tag 542344 +moreinfo thanks Hi, can you please send us a mail or a mailbox through which we can reproduce this bug with a standard out-of-the-box version of mutt without any muttrc? Cheers Antonio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#542344: mutt mangles display of time in From line
On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 07:09:27PM +, Antonio Radici wrote: can you please send us a mail or a mailbox through which we can reproduce this bug with a standard out-of-the-box version of mutt without any muttrc? ummm, no. what a bizarre and slightly disturbing request. 1. i'm not sending anyone a copy of any of my mail, and certainly not to a public bug tracking archive. 2. it's got nothing to do with any actual message, the problem is in mutt itself. i just confirmed for myself that it's not my .muttrc either. I ran 'mutt -n -F /dev/null' and the time displayed was still mangled (first digit of the minutes field is displayed as a space) in the From line. you can reproduce the problem with any message in any mbox or maildir file. the minutes field in the From line is correct in the actual file, but is displayed incorrectly by mutt. if you want another sample, then your message to me has the following From line in /var/mail/cas: From anto...@dyne.org Mon Sep 7 05:15:53 2009 but is displayed in mutt like this: From anto...@dyne.org Mon Sep 7 05: 5:53 2009 note the difference in the time displayed by mutt - 05:15:53 vs 05: 5:53 craig -- craig sanders c...@taz.net.au -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#542344: mutt mangles display of time in From line
Package: mutt Version: 1.5.20-2 Severity: minor I've been noticing this off-and-on for several months now, don't remember when it first started. when displaying the date time in the From line, Mutt sometimes displays a space as the first character of the minutes field instead of the digit to be expected. at first i thought it was only doing it when that first digit should have been 0 (perhaps due to something like the printf format not being zero-padded - %2i rather than %02i) but, as the example below shows, it can happen with non-zero digits too. actual header in /var/mail/cas: From x...@xxx.xxx.xxx Wed Aug 19 15:44:12 2009 header as displayed by mutt: From x...@xxx.xxx.xxx Wed Aug 19 15: 4:12 2009 craig -- craig sanders c...@taz.net.au -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
