Package: mutt Version: 2.2.9-1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Forwarded: https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/-/issues/433
In an mbox mailbox, when the "From " line contains more than the
e-mail address and the date (e.g. information coming from the
"From:" header), Mutt silently ignores the message.
The issue is that there were no specifications for the mbox format
in the past (and even nowadays there are still different assumptions
about it). And I have an old mbox file where additional information
has been kept in the "From " line, and it took me some time to
discover that Mutt silently ignored the messages: I noticed the
ignored messages only after doing an external grep. This is a major
issue as one may not notice that data are missing (as this initially
happened to me), though it would occur on uncommon mailboxes (e.g.
very old ones).
I've attached an example.
Mutt should support relaxed "From " lines, e.g. just requiring that
such a line ends with a date (there could possibly be a configurable
regexp for that). And in any case, Mutt should never silently ignore
data.
-- Package-specific info:
Mutt 2.2.9 (2022-11-12)
Copyright (C) 1996-2022 Michael R. Elkins and others.
Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'.
Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details.
System: Linux 6.0.0-6-amd64 (x86_64)
ncurses: ncurses 6.3.20221224 (compiled with 6.3)
libidn2: 2.3.3 (compiled with 2.3.3)
hcache backend: tokyocabinet 1.4.48
Compiler:
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/12/lto-wrapper
OFFLOAD_TARGET_NAMES=nvptx-none:amdgcn-amdhsa
OFFLOAD_TARGET_DEFAULT=1
Target: x86_64-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Debian 12.2.0-9'
--with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-12/README.Bugs
--enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++,m2 --prefix=/usr
--with-gcc-major-version-only --program-suffix=-12
--program-prefix=x86_64-linux-gnu- --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id
--libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix
--libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug
--enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new
--enable-gnu-unique-object --disable-vtable-verify --enable-plugin
--enable-default-pie --with-system-zlib --enable-libphobos-checking=release
--with-target-system-zlib=auto --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-multiarch
--disable-werror --enable-cet --with-arch-32=i686 --with-abi=m64
--with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --enable-multilib --with-tune=generic
--enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none=/build/gcc-12-lH3g9c/gcc-12-12.2.0/debian/tmp-nvptx/usr,amdgcn-amdhsa=/build/gcc-12-lH3g9c/gcc-12-12.2.0/debian/tmp-gcn/usr
--enable-offload-defaulted --without-cuda-driver --enable-checking=release
--build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
Supported LTO compression algorithms: zlib zstd
gcc version 12.2.0 (Debian 12.2.0-9)
Configure options: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr
'--includedir=${prefix}/include' '--mandir=${prefix}/share/man'
'--infodir=${prefix}/share/info' --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
--disable-option-checking --disable-silent-rules
'--libdir=${prefix}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu' --runstatedir=/run
--disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
--with-mailpath=/var/mail --enable-compressed --enable-debug --enable-fcntl
--enable-hcache --enable-gpgme --enable-imap --enable-smtp --enable-pop
--enable-sidebar --enable-dotlock --disable-fmemopen --with-curses
--with-gnutls --with-gss --with-idn2 --with-mixmaster --with-gsasl
--without-gdbm --without-bdb --without-qdbm --with-tokyocabinet
build_alias=x86_64-linux-gnu 'CFLAGS=-g -O2
-ffile-prefix-map=/build/mutt-AAJXEp/mutt-2.2.9=. -fstack-protector-strong
-Wformat -Werror=format-security' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now'
'CPPFLAGS=-Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2'
Compilation CFLAGS: -Wall -pedantic -Wno-long-long -g -O2
-ffile-prefix-map=/build/mutt-AAJXEp/mutt-2.2.9=. -fstack-protector-strong
-Wformat -Werror=format-security
Compile options:
-DOMAIN
+DEBUG
-HOMESPOOL +USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK +DL_STANDALONE +USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK
+USE_POP +USE_IMAP +USE_SMTP
-USE_SSL_OPENSSL +USE_SSL_GNUTLS -USE_SASL +USE_GSASL +USE_GSS
+HAVE_GETADDRINFO
+HAVE_REGCOMP -USE_GNU_REGEX
+HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_START_COLOR +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD +HAVE_BKGDSET
+HAVE_CURS_SET +HAVE_META +HAVE_RESIZETERM +HAVE_FUTIMENS
+CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_PGP +CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_SMIME +CRYPT_BACKEND_GPGME
-EXACT_ADDRESS -SUN_ATTACHMENT
+ENABLE_NLS -LOCALES_HACK +HAVE_WC_FUNCS +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET
+HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR
+HAVE_ICONV -ICONV_NONTRANS -HAVE_LIBIDN +HAVE_LIBIDN2 +HAVE_GETSID
+USE_HCACHE
+USE_SIDEBAR +USE_COMPRESSED +USE_INOTIFY
-ISPELL
SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
MAILPATH="/var/mail"
PKGDATADIR="/usr/share/mutt"
SYSCONFDIR="/etc"
EXECSHELL="/bin/sh"
MIXMASTER="mixmaster"
To contact the developers, please mail to <mutt-...@mutt.org>.
To report a bug, please contact the Mutt maintainers via gitlab:
https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/issues
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500,
'stable-security'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
merged-usr: no
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.0.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages mutt depends on:
ii libc6 2.36-7
ii libgnutls30 3.7.8-4
ii libgpg-error0 1.46-1
hi libgpgme11 1.18.0-1
ii libgsasl18 2.2.0-1
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.20.1-1
ii libidn2-0 2.3.3-1+b1
ii libncursesw6 6.3+20221224-2
ii libtinfo6 6.3+20221224-2
ii libtokyocabinet9 1.4.48-15
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.13.dfsg-1
Versions of packages mutt recommends:
ii locales 2.36-7
ii mailcap 3.70+nmu1
ii sensible-utils 0.0.17
Versions of packages mutt suggests:
ii aspell 0.60.8-4+b1
ii ca-certificates 20211016
ii gnupg 2.2.40-1
ii ispell 3.4.05-1
ii openssl 3.0.7-1
ii postfix [mail-transport-agent] 3.7.3-2+b1
ii urlview 0.9-23.1
Versions of packages mutt is related to:
ii mutt 2.2.9-1
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