Package: mairix
Version: 0.22-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
$ mairix -r "BANLkTikqitVGvC3-BFEGz-wjYJ2Doe2=p...@mail.gmail.com"
Can't match patterns longer than 31 characters or empty
It's not the length that is problematic but the presence of the "="
character. If I replace it with another character, it doesn't give
the error (but obviously doesn't find the message with the above
message-id). That's because mairix interprets it as a substring
search even if there's non-numeric data after the equal sign.
Maybe there should be a way to escape those special characters too, I
don't know.
Given how popular gmail is, it's a major pain for me because I
rely on mairix to find out where a given message-id is in my
local mail spool is. I put those messages id in my TODO list
to remembers mails that I need to get back to.
I have attached a quick patch that works for me at least.
Cheers,
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500,
'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (150, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages mairix depends on:
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii libc6 2.13-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
mairix recommends no packages.
mairix suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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diff -u mairix-0.22/debian/changelog mairix-0.22/debian/changelog
--- mairix-0.22/debian/changelog
+++ mairix-0.22/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+mairix (0.22-1.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+ * Non-maintainer upload.
+ * Fix annoying behaviour with equal interpreted as a substring match when it
+ should not.
+
+ -- Raphaël Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:39:14 +0200
+
mairix (0.22-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream version.
only in patch2:
unchanged:
--- mairix-0.22.orig/search.c
+++ mairix-0.22/search.c
@@ -936,11 +936,12 @@
}
equal = strchr(word, '=');
- if (equal) {
+ if (equal && (equal[1] == '\0' || isdigit(equal[1]))) {
*equal = 0;
max_errors = atoi(equal + 1);
/* Extend this to do anchoring etc */
} else {
+ equal = NULL;
max_errors = 0; /* keep GCC quiet */
}
