[Pkg-mutt-maintainers] Bug#757141: mutt: $date_format + %D in $folder_format = poo

[Ian Zimmerman]

On 2016-08-24 06:20, Antonio Radici wrote:

> Do you have a test mbox where this happens? If that's the case, can
> you attach it?

> Also, can you include your mutt config? just to check that you set
> date_format only in the index_format and not anywhere else (as it is
> not supposed to be used outside that field)

Hi, sadly I no longer run debian on my workstations (having been
assigned to the proverbial dustbin of history [1] by the systemd wars),
so I cannot report on the debian breed of mutt.

However.  I noticed there was still a problem, even if less severe, with
mutt-1.5.24 on gentoo, which I now run.  It turned out it's just the
insufficient fixed length of the field into which the date is formatted:

diff -r 08e81162482f browser.c
--- a/browser.c	Sun Aug 30 10:26:17 2015 -0700
+++ b/browser.c	Thu Aug 25 21:40:21 2016 -0700
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@
 		   unsigned long data, format_flag flags)
 {
   char fn[SHORT_STRING], tmp[SHORT_STRING], permission[11];
-  char date[16], *t_fmt;
+  char date[32], *t_fmt;
   time_t tnow;
   FOLDER *folder = (FOLDER *) data;
   struct passwd *pw;


Of course this is just an ugly hack that will break when we switch to
the new revolutionary calendar with 30 char long month names :)  But I
hope it helps nonetheless.

[1]

http://dilbert.com/strip/2010-12-11

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