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imap-send: Remove limitation on message body

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There is a documented limitation on the body of any email not being
able to contain lines starting with "From ". This patch removes that
limitation by improving the parser to search for "From", "Date", and
"Subject" fields in the email before considering it to be an email.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Ramkumar Ramachandra 2010-03-22 23:37:52 +05:30 committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 0b3dcfe721
commit 4916c8f953
2 changed files with 10 additions and 8 deletions
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Documentation/git-imap-send.txt
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@ -16,7 +16,9 @@ DESCRIPTION
This command uploads a mailbox generated with 'git format-patch'
into an IMAP drafts folder. This allows patches to be sent as
other email is when using mail clients that cannot read mailbox
files directly.
files directly. The command also works with any general mailbox
in which emails have the fields "From", "Date", and "Subject" in
that order.
Typical usage is something like:
@ -118,12 +120,6 @@ Thunderbird in particular is known to be problematic. Thunderbird
users may wish to visit this web page for more information:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plain_text_e-mail_-_Thunderbird#Completely_plain_email
BUGS
----
Doesn't handle lines starting with "From " in the message body.
Author
------
Derived from isync 1.0.1 by Mike McCormack.

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imap-send.c
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@ -1306,8 +1306,14 @@ static int count_messages(struct msg_data *msg)
while (1) {
if (!prefixcmp(p, "From ")) {
p = strstr(p+5, "\nFrom: ");
if (!p) break;
p = strstr(p+7, "\nDate: ");
if (!p) break;
p = strstr(p+7, "\nSubject: ");
if (!p) break;
p += 10;
count++;
p += 5;
}
p = strstr(p+5, "\nFrom ");
if (!p)