Re: notmuch new: emails with BOM are ignored

Andreas Amann writes: > Hi, > > I recently received some spam mails, which have a utf-16 byte order mark > (BOM) U+FEFF as the first character in one of their "Received:" > lines. When I run "notmuch new" I get the following: > > Note: Ignoring non-mail file:

notmuch new: emails with BOM are ignored

Jani Nikula writes: > My quick guess is that gmime stops header processing at that point, and > all the headers we require are after that invalid header. I can confirm that. I adapted one of the example programs which comes with gmime to read out the "From" header, and it indeed was not found,

notmuch new: emails with BOM are ignored

On Wed, 28 May 2014, David Bremner wrote: > I've tagged this as a wishlist bug / feature request for now, until > somebody has a chance to track down where exactly the issue is, and how > hard it would be to fix. My quick guess is that gmime stops header processing at that point, and all the

Re: notmuch new: emails with BOM are ignored

On Wed, 28 May 2014, David Bremner da...@tethera.net wrote: I've tagged this as a wishlist bug / feature request for now, until somebody has a chance to track down where exactly the issue is, and how hard it would be to fix. My quick guess is that gmime stops header processing at that point,

Re: notmuch new: emails with BOM are ignored

Jani Nikula j...@nikula.org writes: My quick guess is that gmime stops header processing at that point, and all the headers we require are after that invalid header. I can confirm that. I adapted one of the example programs which comes with gmime to read out the From header, and it indeed was

notmuch new: emails with BOM are ignored

Hi, I recently received some spam mails, which have a utf-16 byte order mark (BOM) U+FEFF as the first character in one of their "Received:" lines. When I run "notmuch new" I get the following: Note: Ignoring non-mail file: /home/user/Mail/new/path_to_email_with_BOM Could this be a bug in

notmuch new: emails with BOM are ignored

Hi, I recently received some spam mails, which have a utf-16 byte order mark (BOM) U+FEFF as the first character in one of their Received: lines. When I run notmuch new I get the following: Note: Ignoring non-mail file: /home/user/Mail/new/path_to_email_with_BOM Could this be a bug in notmuch?

Re: notmuch new: emails with BOM are ignored

Andreas Amann a.am...@ucc.ie writes: Could this be a bug in notmuch? Possible emails with BOM are not legal anyhow, but in my opinion it would be better to simply ignore the BOM. I am using notmuch 0.18. As of 0.18 notmuch is using the gmime mail parser exclusively. It could be a