[MlMt] WARNING: Search broken in r6123

Bill Cole mmlist-20120120 at billmail.scconsult.com
Wed Oct 17 10:32:47 EDT 2018


I have opened a bug report (#2140) for this, but it seems to me to be 
important enough and subtle enough to raise in public:

MailMate will not find some messages based on body text words, possibly 
due to some lines being seen as neither quoted nor unquoted text. I 
discovered this by looking for messages with specific words in them in a 
mailbox full of output from 'cron' jobs which are all plain text made up 
of mostly timestamped lines. For example:

	[2018-10-11 02:39:37 -0400]      [/usr/local/cpanel/scripts/rpmup] 
Resolving Dependencies
	[2018-10-11 02:39:37 -0400]      [/usr/local/cpanel/scripts/rpmup] --> 
Running transaction check
	[2018-10-11 02:39:37 -0400]      [/usr/local/cpanel/scripts/rpmup] ---> 
Package ea-apache24.x86_64 0:2.4.34-3.3.1.cpanel will be updated
	[2018-10-11 02:39:37 -0400]      [/usr/local/cpanel/scripts/rpmup] ---> 
Package ea-apache24.x86_64 0:2.4.35-1.1.1.cpanel will be an update
	[2018-10-11 02:39:37 -0400]      [/usr/local/cpanel/scripts/rpmup] ---> 
Package ea-apache24-config.noarch 0:1.0-136.136.5.cpanel will be updated
	[2018-10-11 02:39:37 -0400]      [/usr/local/cpanel/scripts/rpmup] ---> 
Package ea-apache24-config.noarch 0:1.0-137.137.2.cpanel will be an 
update
	[2018-10-11 02:39:37 -0400]      [/usr/local/cpanel/scripts/rpmup] ---> 
Package ea-apache24-config-runtime.noarch 0:1.0-136.136.5.cpanel will be 
updated


If I search for quoted or unquoted text, there is no search string I 
have found which will find any of my messages made up of lines like 
those. Single characters don't work, whole words don't work, nothing.

-- 
Bill Cole
bill at scconsult.com or billcole at apache.org
(AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)
Currently Seeking Steadier Work: https://linkedin.com/in/billcole


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