[PATCH v4 3/4] index: repair "Mixed Up" messages before indexing.

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Sun Sep 8 20:27:25 PDT 2019


When encountering a message that has been mangled in the "mixed up"
way by an intermediate MTA, notmuch should instead repair it and index
the repaired form.

When it does this, it also associates the index.repaired=mixedup
property with the message.  If a problem is found with this repair
process, or an improved repair process is proposed later, this should
make it easy for people to reindex the relevant message.  The property
will also hopefully make it easier to diagnose this particular problem
in the future.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net>
---
 doc/man7/notmuch-properties.rst |  6 ++++++
 lib/index.cc                    | 22 +++++++++++++++++-----
 test/T351-pgpmime-mangling.sh   |  2 --
 3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/man7/notmuch-properties.rst b/doc/man7/notmuch-properties.rst
index e2db2ef5..a7d91d67 100644
--- a/doc/man7/notmuch-properties.rst
+++ b/doc/man7/notmuch-properties.rst
@@ -127,6 +127,12 @@ of its normal activity.
     found in that message, since it was able to index the built-in
     protected headers directly.
 
+    ``index.repaired=mixedup`` indicates the repair of a "Mixed Up"
+    encrypted PGP/MIME message, a mangling typically produced by
+    Microsoft's Exchange MTA.  See
+    https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-dkg-openpgp-pgpmime-message-mangling
+    for more information.
+
 SEE ALSO
 ========
 
diff --git a/lib/index.cc b/lib/index.cc
index 1301d78a..158ba5cf 100644
--- a/lib/index.cc
+++ b/lib/index.cc
@@ -387,11 +387,20 @@ _index_mime_part (notmuch_message_t *message,
     GMimeContentType *content_type;
     char *body;
     const char *charset;
+    GMimeObject *repaired_part = NULL;
 
     if (! part) {
 	_notmuch_database_log (notmuch_message_get_database (message),
 			       "Warning: Not indexing empty mime part.\n");
-	return;
+	goto DONE;
+    }
+
+    repaired_part = _notmuch_repair_mixed_up_mangled (part);
+    if (repaired_part) {
+	/* This was likely "Mixed Up" in transit!  We will instead use
+	 * the more likely-to-be-correct variant. */
+	notmuch_message_add_property (message, "index.repaired", "mixedup");
+	part = repaired_part;
     }
 
     _index_content_type (message, part);
@@ -444,7 +453,7 @@ _index_mime_part (notmuch_message_t *message,
 	    }
 	    _index_mime_part (message, indexopts, toindex, msg_crypto);
 	}
-	return;
+	goto DONE;
     }
 
     if (GMIME_IS_MESSAGE_PART (part)) {
@@ -454,14 +463,14 @@ _index_mime_part (notmuch_message_t *message,
 
 	_index_mime_part (message, indexopts, g_mime_message_get_mime_part (mime_message), msg_crypto);
 
-	return;
+	goto DONE;
     }
 
     if (! (GMIME_IS_PART (part))) {
 	_notmuch_database_log (notmuch_message_get_database (message),
 			       "Warning: Not indexing unknown mime part: %s.\n",
 			       g_type_name (G_OBJECT_TYPE (part)));
-	return;
+	goto DONE;
     }
 
     disposition = g_mime_object_get_content_disposition (part);
@@ -475,7 +484,7 @@ _index_mime_part (notmuch_message_t *message,
 
 	/* XXX: Would be nice to call out to something here to parse
 	 * the attachment into text and then index that. */
-	return;
+	goto DONE;
     }
 
     byte_array = g_byte_array_new ();
@@ -521,6 +530,9 @@ _index_mime_part (notmuch_message_t *message,
 
 	free (body);
     }
+  DONE:
+    if (repaired_part)
+	g_object_unref (repaired_part);
 }
 
 /* descend (if desired) into the cleartext part of an encrypted MIME
diff --git a/test/T351-pgpmime-mangling.sh b/test/T351-pgpmime-mangling.sh
index f65b8a24..4555f937 100755
--- a/test/T351-pgpmime-mangling.sh
+++ b/test/T351-pgpmime-mangling.sh
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ test_json_nodes <<<"$output" \
                 'body:["original"]'"$bodytext"
 
 test_begin_subtest "repaired 'Mixed-up' messages can be found with index.repaired=mixedup"
-test_subtest_known_broken
 output=$(notmuch search --output=messages property:index.repaired=mixedup)
 test_expect_equal "$output" id:mixed-up at mangling.notmuchmail.org
 
@@ -29,7 +28,6 @@ test_begin_subtest "index cleartext of 'Mixed-Up' mangled PGP/MIME message"
 test_expect_success 'notmuch reindex --decrypt=true id:mixed-up at mangling.notmuchmail.org'
 
 test_begin_subtest "search cleartext of 'Mixed-Up' mangled PGP/MIME message"
-test_subtest_known_broken
 output=$(notmuch search --output=messages body:password)
 test_expect_equal "$output" id:mixed-up at mangling.notmuchmail.org
 
-- 
2.23.0



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