Missing headers when forwarding html message as RFC822

Matthew Lear matt at bubblegen.co.uk
Sat Jul 23 05:30:41 PDT 2016


Hi Mark. I will do, but would you mind sending me one of your test messages? At least that way, I can test against something that is 'known working'.
Thanks,
  Matt

> On 23 Jul 2016, at 08:59, Mark Walters <markwalters1009 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
> I have tried several cases, including generating a message with just the
> two parts [ multipart/related ] [ text/html ] and forwarding that, and
> they all work for me. Can you provide a test message where it fails?
> 
> Also what version of emacs are you running? I think all the rfc822
> forwarding is handled by emacs/gnus message-mode
> 
> Best wishes
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> 
>> On Fri, 22 Jul 2016, Matthew Lear <matt at bubblegen.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> With notmuch built from very recent git (sha 3a45d29) it would seem that
>> when forwarding an HTML only message as RFC822, once received, the message
>> does not have any headers and notmuch-show merely displays 'Date: Thu, 01
>> Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000'. I've stripped my .emacs back to a bare minimum
>> configuration and the behaviour is the same.
>> 
>> With a message (incidentally sent by MS Outlook) that contains the
>> following parts:
>> 
>> [ multipart/related ]
>> [ text/html ]
>> 
>> Once forwarded as RFC822 by notmuch and received, it is displayed by
>> notmuch-show as:
>> 
>> [ message/rfc822 ]
>> Date: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000
>> 
>> [ multipart/mixed ]
>> [ multipart/related ]
>> [ text/html ]
>> 
>> While with a message that contains the following parts:
>> 
>> [ multipart/mixed ]
>> [ text/plain ]
>> 
>> Once forwarded as RFC822 by notmuch and received, it is displayed by
>> notmuch-show as:
>> 
>> [ message/rfc822 ]
>> From: xxxx
>> Subject: xxxx
>> To: xxxx
>> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 17:48:17 +0000
>> 
>> [ multipart/mixed ]
>> [ text/plain ]
>> 
>> So the headers are missing in the first case. I'm sure this is a regression.
>> 
>> Can anybody verify this?
>> Cheers,
>> --  Matt
>> 
>> 
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