Re: Unexpected filtering of headers

[manu <eallaud yahoo fr>]

On 28.06.2004 06:00:30, Andreas Schmidt wrote:
> On 2004.06.28 05:13, manu wrote:
> > Nope that was perfect! And sorry for the broken patch, it seems that
> > I was passing around a pointer on a freed string!
> > Could you please try this one?
> > Sorry I do not have those fancy mails with several headers to test  
> > it
> > thoroughly ;-)
>
> OK, this one worked better; the messages with multiple headers got
> filtered now. However, some things are still weird. Don't know if it  
> has anything to do with your patch or whether it's a problem with  
> something else in HEAD, though.
>
> 1) After filtering out those messages with several X-original-to
> headers, I made a copy of ~/mail/ so I could run balsa from HEAD and
> from unstable alternately with the same stock of mails. There were 28
> mails in the Inbox. Unstable would filter all of them, HEAD left them
> all there.

First: what do you call unstable and HEAD. For me HEAD is 2.1.x, so it  
would be unstable in some sense. And I do have some filtering issues  
with it (it "forgets" to filter some mails, I have no idea why for  
now).

> 2) Then, HEAD seemed not to be able to recognize what mails had been
> marked as "Read" already. Instead, more or less random, obviously old
> messages were marked as "unread". I checked twice with unstable  
> (which
> didn't mark these messages) and HEAD (which always chose to mark the
> same messages); but I can't imagine why these messages were always
> marked unread.
>
> 3) This may be an issue with libgmime2.1. I've updated to 2.1.6-1  
> this
> morning. Attempts to scan mail folders and filter or access mails
> resulted in messages like this:
>
> (balsa:32683): gmime-CRITICAL **: file gmime-content-type.c: line 180
> (g_mime_content_type_destroy): assertion `mime_type != NULL' failed
>
> This disappears when libgmime2.1 is downgraded to 2.1.5-1.

I think this has been fixed in CVS gmime.

> 4) In some big mailboxes, HEAD seems to mess up the date displayed in  
> the tree view. These are  headers displayed if the message is  
> selected:
>
> Subject:	Re: Debian Social Contract/Release -> Krise?
> Date:	2004.05.03 18:50
> From:	Sven Hartge <lists ds9 gnuu de>
> To:	debian-user-german lists debian org
>
> Subject:	Re: Debian Social Contract/Release -> Krise?
> Date:	2004.05.03 10:37
> From:	Sven Hartge <lists ds9 gnuu de>
> To:	debian-user-german lists debian org
>
> Subject:	Re: LG-Brenner legt System lahm
> Date:	2004.06.01 23:45
> From:	Sven Hartge <lists ds9 gnuu de>
> To:	debian-user-german lists debian org
>
> Subject:	Re: root-Filesystem remountet ro
> Date:	2004.06.24 19:32
> From:	Sven Hartge <lists ds9 gnuu de>
> To:	debian-user-german lists debian org
>
> In tree view, for all of these mails "01-01-1970 01:00" is displayed  
> as received-date. With unstable, the date is shown correctly both in  
> tree and in message view.

hmm, no idea here, hopefully someone a bit less clueless than me will  
hop in the thread ;-)
Bye
Manu