Debian Bug report logs - #243032
gnumail: problems importing and displaying messages from an mbox

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Michael W. Olson" <bigmike160@yahoo.com>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: gnumail: problems importing and displaying messages from an mbox

Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 08:42:38 -0500

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Package: gnumail
Version: 1.1.2-2
Severity: normal

I've attached an mbox file that causes GNUmail to have trouble
importing it.  When I import this file as a "Standard UNIX mbox", it
gets split into 2 messages, one of which cannot be displayed correctly
(a dialog box comes up that tells me that "A part of this E-mail
cannot be represented... Please report").

I suspect that the problem may arise from the "From another friendly
nerd..." line in the mbox.  It could be that the importer tries to
split the mbox into separate messages based on the occurrence of the
word "From" at the beginning of a line.  It may be best to check for a
valid "From" header first, like

>>>"From email@address.com timestamp"

(extra characters added so that the message won't be mangled).

In addition, I have not been able to successfully import any messages
from my $HOME/Mail folder.  To test this, I copied my provided mbox
file to $HOME/Mail and tried to import it.  Instead of getting 2
messages, it doesn't show any messages.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.5-mwo00
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages gnumail depends on:
ii  addresses-framework         0.4.5-1      Database API backend framework for
ii  addressmanager              0.4.5-1      Personal Address Manager for GNUst
ii  addressview-framework       0.4.5-1      Display/edit framework for GNUstep
ii  gnustep-back                0.9.2-1      The GNUstep GUI Backend
ii  gnustep-base1               1.9.1-2      GNUstep Base library package
ii  gnustep-gui0                0.9.2-1      The GNUstep Gui Library
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libobjc1                    1:3.3.3-6    Runtime library for GNU Objective-
ii  pantomime1                  1.1.2-1      Objective-C library for mail handl

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Message #10 received at 243032-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Yavor Doganov <yavor@gnu.org>

To: 243032-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Appears to be fixed

Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:46:10 +0300

Version: 1.2.0~pre3+snap20071004-4+b1

I just tried the test case in this old bug and it looks like it is
fixed -- the mbox is imported properly, and displayed fine.

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