[Pkg-mutt-maintainers] Bug#624111: #3868: mutt should error if the imported mailbox is invalid

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#3868: mutt should error if the imported mailbox is invalid
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 Reporter:  antonio@…  |      Owner:  mutt-dev
     Type:  defect     |     Status:  new
 Priority:  major      |  Milestone:
Component:  mutt       |    Version:  1.7.0
 Keywords:             |
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 Forwarding from http://bugs.debian.org/624111

 Mutt fails to display the messages in the decompressed archives from
 Freedesktop.org.

 1. messages not displayed, just a few with bogus at does.not.exist.com

         $ wget http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/intel-
 gfx/2011-April.txt.gz
         --2011-04-25 17:54:48--  http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives
 /intel-gfx/2011-April.txt.gz
         Auflösen des Hostnamen lists.freedesktop.org... 131.252.210.177
         Verbindungsaufbau zu lists.freedesktop.org|131.252.210.177|:80...
 verbunden.
         HTTP-Anforderung gesendet, warte auf Antwort... 200 OK
         Länge: 465348 (454K) [application/x-gzip]
         In »2011-April.txt.gz« speichern.

         100%[======================================>] 465.348     53,4K/s
 in 7,5s

         2011-04-25 17:54:56 (60,8 KB/s) - »2011-April.txt.gz« gespeichert
 [465348/465348]
         $ gunzip 2011-April.txt.gz
         $ mutt -f 2011-April.txt # just shows the following
            1     Apr 12 bogus at does.not. (63100) No subject
         $ # trying to display the above message shows the raw mbox file
         Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:12:25 -0000
         From: bogus at does.not.exist.com
         Subject: No subject

         […]

 2. messages not displayed at all
         $ wget http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-
 devel/2010-March.txt.gz
         $ gunzip 2010-March.txt.gz
         $ mutt -f 2010-March.txt
         # no messages are displayed

 I can import both decompressed archives using Evolution just fine.

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Ticket URL: <https://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3868>
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