notmuch-mode: Emails with PDF attachments incorrectly tagged as text/plain expose a few issues

[David Bremner]

Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila at iki.fi> writes:

> On Mon, Apr 06 2020, David Bremner wrote:
>
>> Leo Gaspard <leo at gaspard.io> writes:
>>
>>> David Bremner <david at tethera.net> writes:
>>>
>>>> Leo Gaspard <leo at gaspard.io> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have recently started conversing with someone whose email client
>>>>> incorrectly tags PDF attachments as text/plain.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Leo;
>>>>
>>>> As I mentioned on IRC, we most likely need a reproducer message before
>>>> making any progress on this. Maybe you can ask your correspondent to
>>>> send you a shareable message, then sanitize the addesses in the headers.
>>>
>>> So, I've just been able to re-create at least the “freeze on reply” isue
>>> with the email attached. The image doesn't get corrupted when saving,
>>> though, so I'm not sure it'll be enough to fix both issues, but
>>> hopefully fixing this one would fix the other one too.
>>>
>>> If you try to notmuch-show on the attached email, then hit `r`, you
>>> should notice the image being included verbatim in the text/plain
>>> output, and when hitting C-c C-c it should start freezing emacs.
>>>
>>> Hope that helps!
>>>   Leo
>>
>> Probably the rest of the list hasn't seen the message yet, but I did try
>> it out. ...
>
> Rest of the list hasn't seen the message (yet?) as the body is 440805 bytes
> in size (and there is limit in the mailing list) and it is hanging in 
> moderator queue. I am not too enthusiastic to bloat the mailing list
> archive with just a large test message (but am not against is there more
> people who do think that it is a good idea).
>

I'm happy to forward it to anybody who wants it.

So I think you can delete it from the moderation queue; the content
other than the attachement is in my last reply.

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