Re: python-notmuch decoding error on a message

[Patrick Totzke]

Silly question: how do i get Antoine's msg stup into notmuch? i tried
using pythons mailbox lib to add this string to one of my mailboxes, which works fine.
but upon `notmuch new` I get something along the lines of "skipped non-mail file $myfile"..

back to the topic:
I find it hichgly suprising that this decode fails because one can easily do sth like:

```
>>>'=?utf-8?B?M+ht?= =?utf-8?Q?e?='.decode('UTF-8')
u'=?utf-8?B?M+ht?= =?utf-8?Q?e?='
```
So the actual string should not be the problem. Apparently,
the string as its stored in the index is not plain ascii anymore, which it was in the msg.
I thought notmuch stores exacctly what it gets?

Apart from this, I'd recommend replacing all decodes to unicode objects
by a subroutine that does the following:
If a global property notmuch.DEBUG is set to true: decode as is,
which will raise these exceptions upon errors
else: use .decode('UTF-8', errors='ignore').

In case the mail is not malformed, it will not contain any non-ascii symbols whatsoever,
so both ways should work. If you happen to deal with a malformed mail, you'd get
the problematic symbols omitted (beware of this when doing cryptostuff).

what do you think?
/p


Quoting David Bremner (2011-11-24 16:13:22)
>On Sun, 6 Nov 2011 23:15:54 +0100, Antoine Amarilli <antoine.amarilli at ens.fr> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> The attached message makes python-notmuch crash when trying to access it (see
>> attached log).
>> 
>> I don't know if the encoding of Subject is valid or not, but it would probably
>> be better anyway to ignore decoding errors and return some approximation of
>> Subject instead of failing like this.
>> 
>
>I get a set of critical errors about forgetting to call g_type_init.
>
>We actually call g_type_init in the CLI now, thanks to 
>   
>   id:"1311625989-97755-1-git-send-email-aaronecay at gmail.com"
>
>but it sounds like this probably needs to be called either in libnotmuch
>or in the bindings. 
>
>For what it is worth this message decodes fine in the CLI
>
>d
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