[Mutt] #3046: Bug mangling mbox files on 1.4.2.3
#3046: Bug mangling mbox files on 1.4.2.3
I just tickled a bug in mutt 1.4.2.3, but unfortunately I'm not entirely
sure how. It involved copying a message to, then linking a thread (using
the edit-threads patch) in an mbox file under a softlink which has a
folder hook attached to it, then saving and leaving mutt.
The end result is that a number of messages get mangled in the following
two ways:
* The 12th character (starting from 1) of the line starting with "From "
got replaced with a newline, like (using a diff-like format):
{{{
-From email@xxxxxxxxxxx Mon Apr 14 23:20:10 2008
+From email@
+ddress.tld Mon Apr 14 23:20:10 2008
}}}
The place where it happens appears to be exactly at the 12th character and
is not dependent on the actual content of the line.
* The start of the body got mangled, like this:
{{{
-
---fXStkuK2IQBfcDe+
+QBfcDe+
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
}}}
Or
{{{
-This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
+lti-part message in MIME format.
}}}
Most by far messages in that mbox contain attachments and I haven't
spotted mangling of other messages (yet), but I cannot vouch for that not
having happened, as this information was gathered after mbox
reconstruction; the unmangled version was no longer available.
The hook and the macro provided for completeness, I don't know if they
have anything to do with it:
{{{
macro index @@m_markings "<tag-pattern>~F^M<tag-prefix><clear-flag>!<tag-
prefix><clear-flag>*<collapse-all><tag-pattern>~d<2w!~v^M<tag-prefix
><flag-message><tag-prefix><clear-flag>*"
folder-hook =mangledmbox push @@m_markings
}}}
And my version of mutt:
{{{
Mutt 1.4.2.3i (2007-05-26)
Copyright (C) 1996-2002 Michael R. Elkins and others.
Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'.
Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details.
System: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p5 (i386) [using ncurses 5.2]
Compile options:
-DOMAIN
-DEBUG
-HOMESPOOL +USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK +DL_STANDALONE
-USE_FCNTL +USE_FLOCK
+USE_POP +USE_IMAP +IMAP_EDIT_THREADS +USE_GSS +USE_SSL -USE_SASL
+HAVE_REGCOMP -USE_GNU_REGEX +COMPRESSED
+HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_START_COLOR +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD +HAVE_BKGDSET
+HAVE_CURS_SET +HAVE_META +HAVE_RESIZETERM
+HAVE_PGP -BUFFY_SIZE -EXACT_ADDRESS -SUN_ATTACHMENT
+ENABLE_NLS -LOCALES_HACK +HAVE_WC_FUNCS +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET
+HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR
+HAVE_ICONV -ICONV_NONTRANS +HAVE_GETSID +HAVE_GETADDRINFO
-ISPELL
SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
MAILPATH="/var/mail"
PKGDATADIR="/usr/local/share/mutt"
SYSCONFDIR="/usr/local/etc"
EXECSHELL="/bin/sh"
-MIXMASTER
To contact the developers, please mail to <mutt-dev@xxxxxxxx>.
To report a bug, please use the flea(1) utility.
patch-1.4.2.dw.pgp-menu-traditional.2-fix
1.3.28.nr.threadcomplete
1.4.2.3-jpd.pgp-shorten-more
patch-1.4.0.cd.edit_threads.9.5
pgp_shorten-1.3.27-sec-1
patch-1.3.23.bj.current_shortcut.1
vvv.initials
rr.compressed
}}}
I can provide the precise patches as applied to stock 1.4.2.3 source, of
course.
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3046>