Package: getmail
Version: 5.13-1
Severity: normal
Tags: buster
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X-Debbugs-CC: charlesc-getmail-supp...@pyropus.ca
I now have to soothe a lot of angry people because I didn't receive
some important mails from one of my accounts (and thus didn't act
correctly). The problem was that I received a mail with following
(raw) Cc line on the same account:
Cc: =?utf-8?b?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJl?==?utf-8?b?Y2tp?= <ra...@milecki.pl>
It seems like python2 can decode this:
>>> email.header.decode_header('=?utf-8?b?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJl?= =?utf-8?b?Y2tp?=')
but not
>>> email.header.decode_header('=?utf-8?b?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJl?==?utf-8?b?Y2tp?=')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/email/header.py", line 108, in decode_header
raise HeaderParseError
email.errors.HeaderParseError
getmail just crashed all the time (and systemd restarted it
automatically) but never downloaded any mail for this specific account
again.
getmail[15939]: Traceback (most recent call last):
getmail[15939]: File "/usr/bin/getmail", line 934, in <module>
getmail[15939]: main()
getmail[15939]: File "/usr/bin/getmail", line 898, in main
getmail[15939]: success = go(configs, options.idle)
getmail[15939]: File "/usr/bin/getmail", line 200, in go
getmail[15939]: msg = retriever.getmsg(msgid)
getmail[15939]: File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/getmailcore/_retrieverbases.py",
line 1008, in getmsg
getmail[15939]: return self._getmsgbyid(msgid)
getmail[15939]: File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/getmailcore/_retrieverbases.py",
line 1934, in _getmsgbyid
getmail[15939]: for (val, encoding) in decode_header(encoded_value):
getmail[15939]: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/email/header.py", line 108,
in decode_header
getmail[15939]: raise HeaderParseError
getmail[15939]: email.errors.HeaderParseError
systemd[261]: getmail.service: Main process exited, code=exited,
status=1/FAILURE
systemd[261]: getmail.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
This will no longer affect getmail in Debian sid in the near future
because sid is dropping Python2 (and Python3 doesn't have this
decoding problem).
