[PATCH 0/2] Bug and potential fix: forwarded messages

[Adam Wolfe Gordon]

Oh, and I just noticed that Dmitry has already fixed this, probably in
a better way [1] (though I maintain that there still may be a problem
with the approach in general).  I clearly haven't been following the
list closely enough this week.

[1] id:"1327926286-16680-1-git-send-email-dmitry.kurochkin at gmail.com"

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 17:32, Adam Wolfe Gordon <awg+notmuch at xvx.ca> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I encountered today a bug that I remember being mentioned on IRC where
> some messages are shown in emacs as completely empty, even though their
> content is present and simple. For me, the bug shows up with messages that
> have been forwarded by an Outlook user who didn't add any content to the top
> of the message. The first line of the message is "-----Original Message-----",
> and the rest is the forwarded text. Notmuch tries to collapse the forwarded
> content into a button, but fails mysteriously.
>
> The first patch in this series adds a test (marked as broken) that demonstrates
> the bug. I think this should be pushed regardless of whether my solution is
> the right one. My solution is to check whether we're collapsing the entire
> message before doing so, and avoid turning it into a button if that's the case.
> I think this is a desirable behavior, since if someone has forwarded a message
> without adding anything the user probably wants to read that message. But,
> I'll admit that I didn't figure out the real cause of the problem, and I
> would be happy to hear other suggestions.
>
> It also occurs to me that this might indicate a bigger problem with how
> notmuch-wash.el handles messages starting with "-----Original Message-----".
> Notmuch seems to assume that this indicates the rest of the message is quoted
> stuff that's been top-posted on. In my office this isn't necessarily the case,
> since Outlook produces that line at the top of every reply, and it's up to
> the user whether to top-post or not (and not everyone does).
>
> I'll have to experiment a bit more to verify whether a problem (i.e. whether
> Notmuch hides inappropriate things when someone replies inline with Outlook).
> Someone please correct me if I'm missing something in how the code operates.
>
> Adam Wolfe Gordon (2):
>  test: Add broken test for showing forwarded messages
>  emacs: Fix broken showing of forwarded messages.
>
>  emacs/notmuch-wash.el |    5 +++--
>  test/emacs            |   32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
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