Open gpoo opened 12 years ago
For testing attachments, there is a test file available. It contains one message with nested attachments (51 parts in total).
ftp://ftphost.cac.washington.edu/imap/mime-examples/torture-test.mbox (written by Mark Crispin, father of IMAP protocol).
When
mlstats
parses emails with patches attached misidentify them as different emails.For instance, a MIME message that contains the following parts would fail:
This message is incorrectly parsed as two separate message when it is only one.
mlstats
will start the second message in the beginning of the format patch. In the statistics will look like there were less messages processed and the content stored is incomplete (bad when studying patch contributions).