[offlineimap] OverflowError: Python int too large to convert to C long (#231)

Nicolas Sebrecht notifications at github.com
Sat Aug 29 01:38:27 BST 2015


On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 10:48:29PM +0200, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 12:31:53PM -0700, Martin Carpella wrote:
>>    Issue is caused by utime_from_header = yes for the local repository and
>>    a SPAM message that is quite far in the future, exceeding int32 as
>>    timestamp.
>>
>>    The message's date header is:
>> Date: Thu, 03 Sep 3610 21:32:03 +0300
>>
>>    Maybe a check should be added if the date is that far in the future and
>>    set to native C's long max-value (depending if i386 or amd64).
>
>Aargh. This should be a rare case. I think it would be better to just
>discard the offending mail and notice the user. Playing with data type
>is annoying, code intrusive and prone to errors.
>
>Patches welcome.

OK, how about this:

--------

Handle out-of-bounds dates

Handle case where email's internal time is erroneously so large as to
cause overflow errors when setting file modification time with
utime_from_header = true.

Signed-off-by: Janna Martl <janna.martl109 at gmail.com>
---
 offlineimap/folder/Maildir.py | 16 +++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/offlineimap/folder/Maildir.py b/offlineimap/folder/Maildir.py
index 3f5c071..f969390 100644
--- a/offlineimap/folder/Maildir.py
+++ b/offlineimap/folder/Maildir.py
@@ -350,9 +350,19 @@ class MaildirFolder(BaseFolder):
         tmpname = self.save_to_tmp_file(messagename, content)
 
         if self.utime_from_header:
-            date = emailutil.get_message_date(content, 'Date')
-            if date != None:
-                os.utime(os.path.join(self.getfullname(), tmpname), (date, date))
+            try:
+                date = emailutil.get_message_date(content, 'Date')
+                if date != None:
+                    os.utime(os.path.join(self.getfullname(), tmpname),
+                        (date, date))
+            # In case date is wrongly so far into the future as to be > max int32
+            except:
+                from email.Parser import Parser
+                from offlineimap.ui import getglobalui
+                datestr = Parser().parsestr(content, True).get("Date")
+                ui = getglobalui()
+                ui.warn("UID %d has invalid date %s; not changing file "\
+                    "modification time" % (uid, datestr))
 
         self.messagelist[uid] = self.msglist_item_initializer(uid)
         self.messagelist[uid]['flags'] = flags
-- 
2.5.0



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