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From: "Harald Nordgren via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>,
	Harald Nordgren <haraldnordgren@gmail.com>,
	Harald Nordgren <haraldnordgren@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 2/4] imap-send: accept messages with Subject before Date
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2026 06:56:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <38214d9abf62fa4f8d179ce15e633aa1157ae3e3.1792652185.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pull.2456.v3.git.git.1792652185.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

From: Harald Nordgren <haraldnordgren@gmail.com>

Patches sent with git send-email cannot be fed back into git imap-send
after fetching them from the mailing list archive, for example with

    b4 mbox --single-message -o - <url> | git imap-send

which fails with "no messages found to send". imap-send only counts a
message when its From, Date and Subject headers come in that order,
and git send-email writes Subject before Date.

Accept the three headers in any order within the header block of each
message.

Signed-off-by: Harald Nordgren <haraldnordgren@gmail.com>
---
 imap-send.c           | 24 ++++++++++++++++--------
 t/t9001-send-email.sh | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/imap-send.c b/imap-send.c
index fa326c4ae2..ce2321d42e 100644
--- a/imap-send.c
+++ b/imap-send.c
@@ -1456,6 +1456,21 @@ static void wrap_in_html(struct strbuf *msg)
 	*msg = buf;
 }
 
+static bool has_required_headers(const char *line)
+{
+	bool from = false, date = false, subject = false;
+
+	while ((line = strchr(line, '\n')) && *++line != '\n') {
+		if (starts_with(line, "From: "))
+			from = true;
+		else if (starts_with(line, "Date: "))
+			date = true;
+		else if (starts_with(line, "Subject: "))
+			subject = true;
+	}
+	return from && date && subject;
+}
+
 static int count_messages(struct strbuf *all_msgs)
 {
 	int count = 0;
@@ -1471,14 +1486,7 @@ static int count_messages(struct strbuf *all_msgs)
 				if (!p) break;
 				p += 5;
 				count++;
-			} else {
-				p = strstr(p+5, "\nFrom: ");
-				if (!p) break;
-				p = strstr(p+7, "\nDate: ");
-				if (!p) break;
-				p = strstr(p+7, "\nSubject: ");
-				if (!p) break;
-				p += 10;
+			} else if (has_required_headers(p)) {
 				count++;
 			}
 		}
diff --git a/t/t9001-send-email.sh b/t/t9001-send-email.sh
index d1393ef197..d105fcb41c 100755
--- a/t/t9001-send-email.sh
+++ b/t/t9001-send-email.sh
@@ -2863,4 +2863,26 @@ test_expect_success $PREREQ '--compose handles to headers' '
 	test_cmp expect msgtxt2.to
 '
 
+test_expect_success $PREREQ 'imap-send accepts a sent patch from the list archive' '
+	write_script fake-imap-server <<-\EOF &&
+	printf "* PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+] ready\r\n"
+	printf "1 OK\r\n2 OK\r\n3 OK\r\n"
+	cat >/dev/null
+	EOF
+	test_config imap.tunnel ./fake-imap-server &&
+	clean_fake_sendmail &&
+	git send-email \
+		--from="Example <from@example.com>" \
+		--to=nobody@example.com \
+		--smtp-server="$(pwd)/fake.sendmail" \
+		HEAD^ &&
+	{
+		echo "From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970" &&
+		cat msgtxt1
+	} >archive.mbox &&
+	git imap-send --folder=INBOX <archive.mbox 2>err &&
+	test_grep "^Sending 1 message to INBOX folder" err &&
+	test_grep "(1/1) done" err
+'
+
 test_done
-- 
gitgitgadget


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-10-22  6:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-19 19:19 [PATCH 0/2] Fix imap-send with reordered message headers Harald Nordgren via GitGitGadget
2026-10-19 19:19 ` [PATCH 1/2] imap-send: avoid leaking the tunnel command Harald Nordgren via GitGitGadget
2026-10-19 19:19 ` [PATCH 2/2] imap-send: accept messages with Subject before Date Harald Nordgren via GitGitGadget
2026-10-19 22:00   ` Junio C Hamano
2026-10-20  7:28     ` Harald Nordgren
2026-10-21  7:07 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] Fix imap-send with reordered message headers Harald Nordgren via GitGitGadget
2026-10-21  7:07   ` [PATCH v2 1/2] imap-send: avoid leaking the tunnel command Harald Nordgren via GitGitGadget
2026-10-21  8:24     ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-10-21  8:53       ` Harald Nordgren
2026-10-21  7:07   ` [PATCH v2 2/2] imap-send: accept messages with Subject before Date Harald Nordgren via GitGitGadget
2026-10-21  8:25     ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-10-21  8:45       ` Harald Nordgren
2026-10-21  9:36         ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-10-21  9:59           ` Harald Nordgren
2026-10-22  6:56 ` [PATCH v3 0/4] Fix imap-send with reordered message headers Harald Nordgren via GitGitGadget
2026-10-22  6:56   ` [PATCH v3 1/4] imap-send: wait for the tunnel command to finish Harald Nordgren via GitGitGadget
2026-10-22  6:56   ` Harald Nordgren via GitGitGadget [this message]
2026-10-22  6:56   ` [PATCH v3 3/4] imap-send: check git send-email copies like other messages Harald Nordgren via GitGitGadget
2026-10-22  6:56   ` [PATCH v3 4/4] imap-send: match header names case insensitively Harald Nordgren via GitGitGadget

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