From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, eric@ericabrahamsen.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: master ef14acf: Make nnml handle invalid non-ASCII headers more consistently
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2022 14:59:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k02nze8a.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83r0wygh9b.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 17 Dec 2022 17:52:00 +0200")
* Eli Zaretskii:
>> From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
>> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, Eric Abrahamsen
>> <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>, emacs-devel@gnu.org, ding@gnus.org
>> Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2022 15:57:18 +0100
>>
>> >> Mail source (maildir :path …) failed: (error Invalid data for rfc2047 encoding: 罗勇刚(Yonggang Luo) via Elfutils-devel <elfutils-devel@sourceware.org>)
>> >>
>> >> On an older Emacs without this change, it seems that the original header
>> >> is written to the .overview file, which sidestep the problem that not
>> >> all strings are encodable by the rfc2047 functions.
>> >
>> > Thanks. I guess this From header is invalid because there's no space
>> > between the "罗勇刚" and the "(Yonggang Luo)" parts?
>>
>> Yes, that seems to be what's tripping the encoder. But I'm not sure if
>> proper encoding of ( or ) (as =28 or =29 using the Q encoding, or using
>> the B encoding as in the raw text) is actually invalid. RFC 2047 only
>> talks about unencoded ( or ). In contrast, encoded ( and ) are valid
>> syntax at the RFC 822 layer because encoding hides them.
>
> I'm not sure this is related. I was talking about the missing SPC
> character before the parentheses. But I know very little about this
> stuff, so maybe I'm just misunderstanding you.
I was responding to “this From header is invalid”. I'm not sure if the
original message is actually malformed.
>> I somehow can't reproduce the original issue. I expect more problematic
>> messages to arrive next week, though, and will report then how it goes.
>
> Thanks. Please do get back, even if you don't succeed in reproducing.
As I expected, I could reproduce the issue with new mail. I'm happy to
report that replacing nnml--encode-headers with your new version fixes
the issue.
Going back to older mail, I see that previously the From: header was
written in encoded form to .overview (slightly wrapped to avoid SMTP
issues):
8523 Re: [PATCH 1/7] Rename 'hello2.spec.' -> 'hello2.spec' 'hello3.spec.' -> 'hello3.spec' =?utf-8?b?572X5YuH5YiaKFlvbmdnYW5nIEx1bykgdmlhIEVsZnV0aWxzLWRldmVs?= <elfutils-devel@sourceware.org> Thu, 24 Nov 2022 16:27:56 +0800 <CAE2XoE_RBNdsPZMLiSQKJroyx4ycvqf7y+VDbuY=-XbhOwsL8g@mail.gmail.com>
<20220920084307.1696-1-luoyonggang@gmail.com> <20220920084307.1696-2-luoyonggang@gmail.com> <Y0nH98k6YumMRSz0@wildebeest.org> <CAE2XoE-xfFQNMN1JYSi8Kp+-DUUookRkzwUV+OvKGfnZKDXKEA@mail.gmail.com> <20221019194930.GC24703@redhat.com> <3bf19d05c8976411432709fae1cc2bcc2d21d700.camel@klomp.org>
<586fbfd512763e539f0d06e8ffa308da34be5368.camel@wildebeest.org> 705 32 Xref: oldenburg.str.redhat.com lists.sourceware.elfutils-devel:8523 Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>, elfutils-devel@sourceware.org To: Mark Wielaard <aegon@wildebeest.org>
Now it uses unencoded form:
8762 Re: [PATCH v2 13/16] lib: isatty is not available on windows 罗勇刚(Yonggang Luo) via Elfutils-devel <elfutils-devel@sourceware.org> Mon, 19 Dec 2022 20:32:48 +0800 <CAE2XoE-Xv6+4Npj38ih_nPMZ8e6ph7oS8wxvKFx1uE-sRfH_kw@mail.gmail.com> <20221217165213.152-1-luoyonggang@gmail.com>
<20221217165213.152-14-luoyonggang@gmail.com> 1074 43 Xref: oldenburg.str.redhat.com lists.sourceware.elfutils-devel:8762 To: elfutils-devel@sourceware.org
I assume that there is some protection in place that tabs are not
possible here?
Thanks,
Florian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-19 13:59 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <20210122180802.F0A1E20A10@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2022-12-16 22:42 ` Florian Weimer
2022-12-17 7:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-17 14:57 ` Florian Weimer
2022-12-17 15:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-19 13:59 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2022-12-19 17:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-19 17:27 ` Florian Weimer
2022-12-19 17:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-19 17:48 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-12-19 17:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-19 18:05 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-12-19 18:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
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