[PATCH 2/2] guess From address from Received headers

Dirk Hohndel hohndel at infradead.org
Tue Apr 6 12:45:57 PDT 2010


 When replying to a message notmuch tries to pick the correct From
 address by looking which one of a user's configured email addresses
 were included in To or Cc headers of the email that is being replied to.
 If none of the users email addresses are in the To or Cc headers we now
 try to guess from the first (chronologically, last) Received header
 which domain this email was received in and therefore which of the
 email addresses to use in a reply
 If that fails we still use the primary email as From email


Signed-off-by: Dirk Hohndel <hohndel at infradead.org>
---
 notmuch-reply.c |   73 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/notmuch-reply.c b/notmuch-reply.c
index 6c15536..3c5b253 100644
--- a/notmuch-reply.c
+++ b/notmuch-reply.c
@@ -282,6 +282,69 @@ add_recipients_from_message (GMimeMessage *reply,
     return from_addr;
 }
 
+
+static const char *
+guess_from_received_header(notmuch_config_t *config, notmuch_message_t *message)
+{
+    const char *received,*primary;
+    char **other;
+    char *by,*mta,*ptr,*token;
+    char *domain=NULL;
+    char *tld=NULL;
+    const char *delim=". \t";
+    size_t i,other_len;
+
+    received = notmuch_message_get_header (message, "received");
+    by = strstr(received," by ");
+    if (by && *(by+4)) {
+	/* we know that there are 4 characters after by - either the 4th one
+	 * is '\0' (broken header) or it is the first letter of the hostname 
+	 * that last received this email - which we'll use to guess the right
+	 * from email address
+	 */
+	mta = strdup(by+4);
+	if (mta == NULL)
+	    return NULL;
+	/* After the MTA comes its IP address (or HELO response) in parenthesis.
+	 * so let's terminate the string there
+	 */
+	if ((ptr = strchr(mta,'(')) == NULL) {
+	    free (mta);
+	    return NULL;
+	}
+	*ptr = '\0';
+	/* Now extract the last two components of the MTA host name
+	 * as domain and tld
+	 */
+	token = mta;
+	while ((ptr = strsep(&token,delim)) != NULL) {
+	    if (*ptr == '\0')
+		continue;
+	    domain = tld;
+	    tld = ptr;
+	}
+	if (domain) {
+	    /* recombine domain and tld and look for it among the configured
+	     * email addresses
+	     */
+	    *(tld-1) = '.';
+	    primary = notmuch_config_get_user_primary_email (config);
+	    if (strcasestr (primary, domain)) {
+		free(mta);
+		return primary;
+	    }
+	    other = notmuch_config_get_user_other_email (config, &other_len);
+	    for (i = 0; i < other_len; i++)
+		if (strcasestr (other[i], domain)) {
+		    free(mta);
+		    return other[i];
+		}
+	}
+	free(mta);
+    }
+    return NULL;
+}
+
 static int
 notmuch_reply_format_default(void *ctx, notmuch_config_t *config, notmuch_query_t *query)
 {
@@ -312,9 +375,13 @@ notmuch_reply_format_default(void *ctx, notmuch_config_t *config, notmuch_query_
 	g_mime_message_set_subject (reply, subject);
 
 	from_addr = add_recipients_from_message (reply, config, message);
-
-	if (from_addr == NULL)
-	    from_addr = notmuch_config_get_user_primary_email (config);
+	
+	if (from_addr == NULL) {
+	    from_addr = guess_from_received_header (config, message);
+	    if (from_addr == NULL) {
+	        from_addr = notmuch_config_get_user_primary_email (config);
+	    }
+	}
 
 	from_addr = talloc_asprintf (ctx, "%s <%s>",
 				     notmuch_config_get_user_name (config),
-- 
1.6.6.1


-- 
Dirk Hohndel
Intel Open Source Technology Center


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