Your message dated Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:26:42 -0400
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has caused the report #634948,
regarding mairix: fails with "Can't match patterns longer than 31 characters or
empty"
to be marked as having been forwarded to the upstream software
author(s) Richard Curnow <[email protected]>
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634948: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=634948
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Greetings Richard!
I noticed that there are a couple of message I had not yet forwarded
on to you. This is the first of three.
Here is a bug report from Debian and patch related to equal signs in
message-ids. Hopefully you can apply this before you do the 0.23
release of mairix.
Regards,
Mako
<quote who="Raphael Hertzog" date="Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 09:46:55AM +0200">
> Package: mairix
> Version: 0.22-1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
>
> $ mairix -r "[email protected]"
> 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
>
> Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English)
> ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français)
> 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 <[email protected]> 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 */
> }
>
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Benjamin Mako Hill
[email protected]
http://mako.cc/
Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far
as society is free to use the results. --GNU Manifesto
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