Re: [gmime-devel] Putting GMime into Bongo

[Alex Hudson <alex bongo-project org>]

Hi Jeff,

Well, I've put in the first patch which starts using GMime in Bongo: at 
the moment, just parsing RFC 2822 messages, but it was nice and simple. 
On LKML our old parser had a ~1% failure rate, so I suspect this is 
going to be a big improvement :)

Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> If you guys have any suggestions or features that you need, I'll try to
> get them in for the next stable release (2.4.0?).
>   

One simple thing has turned up immediately: there doesn't seem to be an 
obvious way to get a byte offset for the end of the mail headers from 
the start of a message. What I've done as a sort of hack is use 
g_mime_object_get_headers() to get a raw copy, and then calculate the 
length of that string, but I'm thinking that it would be nice if GMime 
just had an internal value somewhere that got set as it parsed the 
message (assuming it doesn't already).

I did look at doing a patch, but the state machine in gmime-parser.c is 
a bit beyond me at the moment: in particular, there seems to be some 
code to work with mails with malformed separation between header and 
content, and it looks like it springs it into a different state compared 
to finding the correct separator?

As another data point, I looked at the source for DBMail, and it looks 
like they have a find_end_of_header() in this file;

http://git.dbmail.eu/?p=paul/dbmail;a=blob;f=src/dbmail-message.c;h=7f82b667698dd4090ef0fd6354c050e7b615102f;hb=HEAD

... which I assume is for the same reason I want the size of the headers 
too.

Thanks,

Alex.