[Evolution] Bug#690741: evolution corrupts any mboxes with "From_" lines

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

Hi Michael.

I had another iteration cycle with upstream, the result being basically
that they knew about the issue since 4 years already not intending to
fix it.
They claim it was not solvable... well given that all MUAs and mail
servers I know deal[0] correctly with the problem clearly identifies
this as a lie, which to my opinion goes closely towards malevolently
corrupting user data.

I have a long standing history of quite critical issues (e.g. for
security reason) with Evolution upstream, where they simply hid them
behind other bugs (as "duplicates") or closed them with not reason... to
be honest I'm quite fed up with that guys.
They already announced to block my account when I continue reporting
this issue,... to I'm out here.


I still think we should find a way to deal with it for at least the
Debian uses.
Two "solutions" come to my mind:
a) Warn in the package description and perhaps in some debconf (priority
high - everyone should be able) dialog that anything with respect to
mbox format is broken in Evolution and may lead to corruption

and/or

b) Remove any functionality with respect to mbox.

Note that BOTH exporting/saving to   AND  importing/reading from mbox
leads to mail corruption, as soon as From_ lines appear.


Please tell me if there's anything further with what I can help :)

Cheers,
Chris


[0] For those not knowing how this is correctly done since years, google
for the different subformats of the mbox-family of formats, namely
mboxrd, mboxcl2 (and the obsolete mboxcl and mboxo).
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