Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net> writes:

>> I think there might be other emails on the guix-commits mailing list
>> that still can't be read.
>>
>> For testing, I downloaded
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/mbox/guix-commits/2019-08 and then tried
>> to read it with:
>>
>>   (map parse-email (call-with-input-file "2019-08" mbox->emails))
>
> These errors occur due to the occurrence of non-standard ISO-8859-1
> characters in the headers due to Emacs message mode parens style
> addresses. The earlier fix only allows UTF-8 or ASCII characters. I have
> pushed a new fix that uses the substitute conversion strategy to
> silently fail without an error in the event of something other than
> UTF-8 or ASCII encoding.
>
> https://git.systemreboot.net/guile-email/commit/?id=c10524726e0a91445a0329cc9aa72b7467258381
>
> The alternative to this is to implement some complicated encoding
> guessing scheme. I'm not sure it's worth the effort. WDYT?

Awesome, thanks Arun. Substituting invalid characters works for me.

Would you be up for doing a release with these changes at some point?
Then the 'patch-module-dir phase could be removed from the Guix package
definition as well.

Thanks,

Chris