[PATCH 1/2] cli: add --from option to reply to restrict guessing of the From: header.

Mark Walters markwalters1009 at gmail.com
Sat Feb 4 11:07:59 PST 2012


On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:59:58 +0200, Jani Nikula <jani at nikula.org> wrote:
> On Sat,  4 Feb 2012 17:09:09 +0000, Mark Walters <markwalters1009 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Add an option --from= to notmuch-reply.c to restrict guessing of the
> > From: header. The existing logic looks as the main headers, then at
> > the delivery headers, and finally defaults to the config file address.
> > 
> > This patch allows the user to restrict which of these guesses are
> > made.  Currently the supported values are:
> >        default|fallback-all    current behaviour
> >        fallback-received       fallback to delivery headers but not config file
> >        fallback-none	       only look at from/reply-to/to/cc/ headers
> >        none	 	       From: header is always left empty
> 
> As discussed on IRC, --from=primary is a natural extension to always use
> the primary address from config, but that can be a later patch.

Ok, I will probably add that.

> > 
> > If the code does not find an allowed address it outputs an empty From:
> > line and the caller can decide how to respond.
> > ---
> >  notmuch-reply.c |   39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
> >  1 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/notmuch-reply.c b/notmuch-reply.c
> > index f55b1d2..f660749 100644
> > --- a/notmuch-reply.c
> > +++ b/notmuch-reply.c
> > @@ -24,6 +24,13 @@
> >  #include "gmime-filter-reply.h"
> >  #include "gmime-filter-headers.h"
> >  
> 
> I think it would be good to have a comment here reminding later
> developers that the order matters in this enum.

Have fixed

> > +enum {
> > +    FROM_FALLBACK_ALL,
> > +    FROM_FALLBACK_RECEIVED,
> > +    FROM_FALLBACK_NONE,
> > +    FROM_NONE
> > +};
> > +
> >  static void
> >  reply_headers_message_part (GMimeMessage *message);
> >  
> > @@ -510,7 +517,8 @@ notmuch_reply_format_default(void *ctx,
> >  			     notmuch_config_t *config,
> >  			     notmuch_query_t *query,
> >  			     notmuch_show_params_t *params,
> > -			     notmuch_bool_t reply_all)
> > +			     notmuch_bool_t reply_all,
> > +			     int from_guess)
> 
> Hrmh, I'd like this to sound more deterministic than
> "guessing". from_select? from_use? from?

I have gone for from_select.

> >  {
> >      GMimeMessage *reply;
> >      notmuch_messages_t *messages;
> > @@ -542,15 +550,19 @@ notmuch_reply_format_default(void *ctx,
> >  	from_addr = add_recipients_from_message (reply, config, message,
> >  						 reply_all);
> >  
> > -	if (from_addr == NULL)
> > +	if ((from_addr == NULL) && (from_guess <= FROM_FALLBACK_RECEIVED))
> 
> Please drop the extra braces here and below.

Have fixed. (Indeed in a sense this was a bug see below!)
> 
> >  	    from_addr = guess_from_received_header (config, message);
> >  
> > -	if (from_addr == NULL)
> > +	if ((from_addr == NULL) && (from_guess <= FROM_FALLBACK_ALL ))
> >  	    from_addr = notmuch_config_get_user_primary_email (config);
> >  
> > -	from_addr = talloc_asprintf (ctx, "%s <%s>",
> > -				     notmuch_config_get_user_name (config),
> > -				     from_addr);
> > +	if ((from_addr != NULL) || (from_guess = FROM_NONE)) {
> 
> Should that be (from_addr != NULL && from_guess != FROM_NONE)?
> Definitely the assignment is an error!

You are quite right. And if I didn't have the superfluous brackets the
compiler would probably have given a warning. I have fixed it.

> 
> > +	    from_addr = talloc_asprintf (ctx, "%s <%s>",
> > +					 notmuch_config_get_user_name (config),
> > +					 from_addr);
> > +	} else {
> > +	    from_addr = talloc_strdup (ctx, "");
> > +	}
> >  	g_mime_object_set_header (GMIME_OBJECT (reply),
> >  				  "From", from_addr);
> >  
> > @@ -590,7 +602,8 @@ notmuch_reply_format_headers_only(void *ctx,
> >  				  notmuch_config_t *config,
> >  				  notmuch_query_t *query,
> >  				  unused (notmuch_show_params_t *params),
> > -				  notmuch_bool_t reply_all)
> > +				  notmuch_bool_t reply_all,
> > +				  unused (int from_guess))
> >  {
> >      GMimeMessage *reply;
> >      notmuch_messages_t *messages;
> > @@ -657,10 +670,11 @@ notmuch_reply_command (void *ctx, int argc, char *argv[])
> >      notmuch_query_t *query;
> >      char *query_string;
> >      int opt_index, ret = 0;
> > -    int (*reply_format_func)(void *ctx, notmuch_config_t *config, notmuch_query_t *query, notmuch_show_params_t *params, notmuch_bool_t reply_all);
> > +    int (*reply_format_func)(void *ctx, notmuch_config_t *config, notmuch_query_t *query, notmuch_show_params_t *params, notmuch_bool_t reply_all, int from_guess);
> >      notmuch_show_params_t params = { .part = -1 };
> >      int format = FORMAT_DEFAULT;
> >      int reply_all = TRUE;
> > +    int from_guess = FROM_FALLBACK_ALL;
> >      notmuch_bool_t decrypt = FALSE;
> >  
> >      notmuch_opt_desc_t options[] = {
> > @@ -672,6 +686,13 @@ notmuch_reply_command (void *ctx, int argc, char *argv[])
> >  	  (notmuch_keyword_t []){ { "all", TRUE },
> >  				  { "sender", FALSE },
> >  				  { 0, 0 } } },
> > +	{ NOTMUCH_OPT_KEYWORD, &from_guess, "from", 'F',
> > +	  (notmuch_keyword_t []){ { "default", FROM_FALLBACK_ALL },
> > +				  { "fallback-all", FROM_FALLBACK_ALL },
> > +				  { "fallback-received", FROM_FALLBACK_RECEIVED },
> > +				  { "fallback-none", FROM_FALLBACK_NONE },
> > +				  { "none", FROM_NONE },
> > +				  { 0, 0 } } },
> >  	{ NOTMUCH_OPT_BOOLEAN, &decrypt, "decrypt", 'd', 0 },
> >  	{ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 }
> >      };
> > @@ -732,7 +753,7 @@ notmuch_reply_command (void *ctx, int argc, char *argv[])
> >  	return 1;
> >      }
> >  
> > -    if (reply_format_func (ctx, config, query, &params, reply_all) != 0)
> > +    if (reply_format_func (ctx, config, query, &params, reply_all, from_guess) != 0)
> >  	return 1;
> >  
> >      notmuch_query_destroy (query);
> > -- 
> > 1.7.2.3
> > 
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