[sup-talk] RMail chokes on broken headers

[Tero Tilus <tero@tilus.net>]

RMail::Header#content_type breaks when it encounters broken
Content-Type and takes sup-sync down with it

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rmail-1.0.0/lib/rmail/header.rb:537:in `content_type': undefined method `downcase' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
        from /home/terotil/src/sup/lib/sup/message.rb:439:in `message_to_chunks'
        from /home/terotil/src/sup/lib/sup/message.rb:239:in `load_from_source!'
        from /home/terotil/src/sup/lib/sup/message.rb:335:in `build_from_source'
        from /home/terotil/src/sup/lib/sup/poll.rb:160:in `each_message_from'

Worked around it this way

diff --git a/lib/sup/message.rb b/lib/sup/message.rb
index f9f87de..5ff3e48 100644
--- a/lib/sup/message.rb
+++ b/lib/sup/message.rb
@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ private
       end
 
       chunks
-    elsif m.header.content_type && m.header.content_type.downcase == "message/rfc822"
+    elsif (m.header.content_type == "message/rfc822" rescue false) # rmail 1.0.0 may choke on broken content-type header, FIXME: fix rmail
       if m.body
         payload = RMail::Parser.read(m.body)
         from = payload.header.from.first ? payload.header.from.first.format : ""
@@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ private
         debug "no body for message/rfc822 enclosure; skipping"
         []
       end
-    elsif m.header.content_type && m.header.content_type.downcase == "application/pgp" && m.body
+    elsif (m.header.content_type.downcase == "application/pgp" rescue false) && m.body # rmail 1.0.0 may choke on broken content-type header, FIXME: fix rmail
       ## apparently some versions of Thunderbird generate encryped email that
       ## does not follow RFC3156, e.g. messages with X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0
       ## they have no MIME multipart and just set the body content type to

The problem itself is inside RMail.  I reported it.
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=27282&group_id=446&atid=1754

RMail looks abandoned.  Development is pretty much stalled.  No
functional changes since 2004-04-27.  None of the reported bugs have
been fixed.  Might it be worth to think about switching to another
mail lib?  TMail author's http://github.com/mikel/mail/ looks
promising.

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