[PATCH 17/17] lib: change parent strategy to use In-Reply-To if it looks sane
David Bremner
david at tethera.net
Tue Sep 4 03:57:23 PDT 2018
As reported by Sean Whitton, there are mailers (in particular the
Debian Bug Tracking System) that have sensible In-Reply-To headers,
but un-useful-for-notmuch References (in particular with the BTS, the
oldest reference is last). I looked at a sample of about 200K
messages, and only about 0.5% these had something other than a single
message-id in In-Reply-To. On this basis, if we see a single
message-id in In-Reply-To, consider that as authoritative.
---
lib/add-message.cc | 20 +++++++++++++++-----
test/T510-thread-replies.sh | 1 -
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/add-message.cc b/lib/add-message.cc
index f5fac8be..da37032c 100644
--- a/lib/add-message.cc
+++ b/lib/add-message.cc
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ _notmuch_database_link_message_to_parents (notmuch_database_t *notmuch,
const char **thread_id)
{
GHashTable *parents = NULL;
- const char *refs, *in_reply_to, *in_reply_to_message_id;
+ const char *refs, *in_reply_to, *in_reply_to_message_id, *strict_message_id = NULL;
const char *last_ref_message_id, *this_message_id;
GList *l, *keys = NULL;
notmuch_status_t ret = NOTMUCH_STATUS_SUCCESS;
@@ -242,14 +242,24 @@ _notmuch_database_link_message_to_parents (notmuch_database_t *notmuch,
parents, refs);
in_reply_to = _notmuch_message_file_get_header (message_file, "in-reply-to");
+ if (in_reply_to)
+ strict_message_id = _notmuch_message_id_parse_strict (message,
+ in_reply_to);
+
in_reply_to_message_id = parse_references (message,
this_message_id,
parents, in_reply_to);
- /* For the parent of this message, use the last message ID of the
- * References header, if available. If not, fall back to the
- * first message ID in the In-Reply-To header. */
- if (last_ref_message_id) {
+ /* For the parent of this message, use
+ * 1) the In-Reply-To header, if it looks sane, otherwise
+ * 2) the last message ID of the References header, if available.
+ * 3) Otherwise, fall back to the first message ID in
+ * the In-Reply-To header.
+ */
+
+ if (strict_message_id) {
+ _notmuch_message_add_term (message, "replyto", strict_message_id);
+ } else if (last_ref_message_id) {
_notmuch_message_add_term (message, "replyto",
last_ref_message_id);
} else if (in_reply_to_message_id) {
diff --git a/test/T510-thread-replies.sh b/test/T510-thread-replies.sh
index 1dfb86c9..5d6bea7e 100755
--- a/test/T510-thread-replies.sh
+++ b/test/T510-thread-replies.sh
@@ -210,7 +210,6 @@ EOF
test_expect_equal_file EXPECTED OUTPUT
test_begin_subtest "trusting reply-to (tree view)"
-test_subtest_known_broken
test_emacs '(notmuch-tree "id:B00-root at example.org")
(notmuch-test-wait)
(test-output)
--
2.11.0
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