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+/*
+ * qtmaildir - a Qt6 mail client for notmuch-indexed Maildirs
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 Danilo M. <danix@danix.xyz>
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+ */
+
+// gmime.h pulls in glib's gio headers, which declare a struct field named
+// "signals". Qt's <QtCore/qnamespace.h> #defines "signals" to "Q_SIGNALS"
+// (unless QT_NO_KEYWORDS is set), so gmime.h must be included before any Qt
+// header in this translation unit to avoid a macro collision.
+#include <gmime/gmime.h>
+
+#include "messagebuilder.h"
+
+#include <QCoreApplication>
+#include <QFileInfo>
+#include <QMimeDatabase>
+#include <QMimeType>
+#include <QObject>
+
+#include "config.h"
+#include "markdownrenderer.h"
+
+namespace {
+
+/// GMime must be initialised exactly once per process. MimeParser has its own
+/// copy of this guard; both are cheap and neither can assume the other ran,
+/// since a test may link only one of them.
+void ensureGMimeInitialised()
+{
+ static bool initialised = false;
+ if (!initialised) {
+ g_mime_init();
+ initialised = true;
+ }
+}
+
+/// A text part carrying \p text as utf-8, quoted-printable.
+///
+/// Deliberately NOT g_mime_text_part_set_text(). Measured 2026-08-20: that
+/// function encodes using the charset set at the moment it is CALLED, so the
+/// obvious "set the text, then set the charset" order relabels the part without
+/// re-encoding it. The result is a part headed charset=utf-8 whose bytes are
+/// latin-1 (`Perch=E9`), which looks correct in every header and arrives as
+/// mojibake. Building the content stream from the utf-8 bytes directly was
+/// measured to produce `Perch=C3=A9` correctly. This user writes Italian, so an
+/// accented character is in every message, not an edge case.
+GMimePart *makeTextPart(const char *subtype, const QString &text)
+{
+ GMimePart *part = g_mime_part_new_with_type("text", subtype);
+ g_mime_object_set_content_type_parameter(GMIME_OBJECT(part), "charset", "utf-8");
+
+ const QByteArray utf8 = text.toUtf8();
+ GMimeStream *stream = g_mime_stream_mem_new_with_buffer(utf8.constData(),
+ static_cast<size_t>(utf8.size()));
+ GMimeDataWrapper *wrapper =
+ g_mime_data_wrapper_new_with_stream(stream, GMIME_CONTENT_ENCODING_DEFAULT);
+ g_mime_part_set_content(part, wrapper);
+ g_mime_part_set_content_encoding(part, GMIME_CONTENT_ENCODING_QUOTEDPRINTABLE);
+
+ g_object_unref(wrapper);
+ g_object_unref(stream);
+ return part;
+}
+
+/// Sets \p header on \p message to \p addresses, RFC 2047 encoded as utf-8.
+///
+/// Each entry is passed through internet_address_list_parse() rather than
+/// treated as a bare address, because the composer's fields hold whatever the
+/// user typed and "Name <addr@example.org>" is the ordinary form. Parsing per
+/// entry rather than joining first keeps a comma inside a quoted display name
+/// from splitting one recipient into two.
+void setAddressHeader(GMimeMessage *message, const char *header, const QStringList &addresses)
+{
+ if (addresses.isEmpty())
+ return;
+
+ InternetAddressList *list = internet_address_list_new();
+ for (const QString &entry : addresses) {
+ const QString trimmed = entry.trimmed();
+ if (trimmed.isEmpty())
+ continue;
+ const QByteArray utf8 = trimmed.toUtf8();
+ InternetAddressList *parsed = internet_address_list_parse(nullptr, utf8.constData());
+ if (!parsed)
+ continue;
+ internet_address_list_append(list, parsed);
+ g_object_unref(parsed);
+ }
+
+ if (internet_address_list_length(list) > 0) {
+ GMimeFormatOptions *format = g_mime_format_options_get_default();
+ char *rendered = internet_address_list_to_string(list, format, TRUE);
+ if (rendered) {
+ g_mime_object_set_header(GMIME_OBJECT(message), header, rendered, "utf-8");
+ g_free(rendered);
+ }
+ }
+ g_object_unref(list);
+}
+
+} // namespace
+
+namespace MessageBuilder {
+
+Result build(const OutgoingMessage &message, const Account &account)
+{
+ Result result;
+
+ // Config::account() returns a DEFAULT-CONSTRUCTED Account for an unknown
+ // key rather than reporting an error, so an account reached by a stale or
+ // mistyped key arrives here looking like a valid one with empty fields.
+ // Building from it would produce a message with an empty From: silently
+ // malformed mail handed to the send command as though it were fine.
+ if (account.address.trimmed().isEmpty()) {
+ result.error = QObject::tr("The account has no address configured, so no message "
+ "can be sent from it.");
+ return result;
+ }
+
+ // Attachments are checked HERE rather than when the file was attached: a
+ // file can vanish in between, and a message missing the thing it was
+ // written to carry must never reach the send command. Checked before
+ // anything is allocated, so the failure path frees nothing.
+ for (const QString &path : message.attachments) {
+ const QFileInfo info(path);
+ if (!info.exists() || !info.isReadable()) {
+ result.error = QObject::tr("The attachment %1 is missing or unreadable.")
+ .arg(info.fileName().isEmpty() ? path : info.fileName());
+ return result;
+ }
+ }
+
+ ensureGMimeInitialised();
+
+ GMimeMessage *mime = g_mime_message_new(TRUE);
+
+ const QByteArray fromName = account.name.toUtf8();
+ const QByteArray fromAddress = account.address.toUtf8();
+ g_mime_message_add_mailbox(mime, GMIME_ADDRESS_TYPE_FROM,
+ account.name.isEmpty() ? nullptr : fromName.constData(),
+ fromAddress.constData());
+
+ setAddressHeader(mime, "To", message.to);
+ setAddressHeader(mime, "Cc", message.cc);
+ // Bcc is written into the bytes deliberately. The documented send command
+ // is `msmtp -t`, which reads its recipients FROM the headers and strips Bcc
+ // itself before transmission; omitting it here would mean blind recipients
+ // never receive the message at all, silently. If sending ever passes
+ // recipients as arguments instead, this line must go with it.
+ setAddressHeader(mime, "Bcc", message.bcc);
+
+ // The explicit "utf-8". Measured 2026-08-20: with NULL here GMime encodes
+ // the subject as iso-8859-1 (=?iso-8859-1?B?...?=).
+ const QByteArray subject = message.subject.toUtf8();
+ g_mime_message_set_subject(mime, subject.constData(), "utf-8");
+
+ if (!message.inReplyTo.trimmed().isEmpty()) {
+ const QByteArray value = message.inReplyTo.trimmed().toUtf8();
+ g_mime_object_set_header(GMIME_OBJECT(mime), "In-Reply-To", value.constData(), "utf-8");
+ }
+ if (!message.references.isEmpty()) {
+ const QByteArray value = message.references.join(QLatin1Char(' ')).toUtf8();
+ g_mime_object_set_header(GMIME_OBJECT(mime), "References", value.constData(), "utf-8");
+ }
+
+ // Measured 2026-08-20: GMime generates neither Date nor Message-ID unless
+ // asked. A message without a Message-ID cannot be threaded by anything that
+ // receives it, this application's own index of the sent copy included.
+ GDateTime *now = g_date_time_new_now_local();
+ g_mime_message_set_date(mime, now);
+ g_date_time_unref(now);
+
+ const QString domain = account.address.section(QLatin1Char('@'), 1);
+ const QByteArray domainUtf8 = (domain.isEmpty() ? QStringLiteral("localhost") : domain).toUtf8();
+ char *generatedId = g_mime_utils_generate_message_id(domainUtf8.constData());
+ if (generatedId) {
+ g_mime_message_set_message_id(mime, generatedId);
+ result.messageId = QString::fromUtf8(generatedId);
+ g_free(generatedId);
+ }
+
+ // The markdown SOURCE is the plain part, never a stripped-of-syntax
+ // rewrite: `**bold**` reads as emphasis, and rewriting it would mean a
+ // second renderer whose output could disagree with the HTML one.
+ GMimeObject *body = GMIME_OBJECT(makeTextPart("plain", message.markdownBody));
+
+ if (message.sendHtml) {
+ GMimePart *html = makeTextPart("html", MarkdownRenderer::toHtml(message.markdownBody));
+ GMimeMultipart *alternative = g_mime_multipart_new_with_subtype("alternative");
+ // Least-rich FIRST. A client renders the LAST alternative it
+ // understands, so a reversed order shows the markdown source everywhere
+ // and the rendered part is never seen.
+ g_mime_multipart_add(alternative, body);
+ g_mime_multipart_add(alternative, GMIME_OBJECT(html));
+ g_object_unref(body);
+ g_object_unref(html);
+ body = GMIME_OBJECT(alternative);
+ }
+
+ if (!message.attachments.isEmpty()) {
+ GMimeMultipart *mixed = g_mime_multipart_new_with_subtype("mixed");
+ // The body goes in FIRST, so the wrapper NESTS it rather than standing
+ // beside it. Beside it, a client shows the alternatives as attachments
+ // and the message reads as empty.
+ g_mime_multipart_add(mixed, body);
+ g_object_unref(body);
+
+ QMimeDatabase mimeDb;
+ for (const QString &path : message.attachments) {
+ const QFileInfo info(path);
+ const QMimeType type = mimeDb.mimeTypeForFile(info);
+ const QByteArray typeName = type.name().toUtf8();
+
+ GMimeContentType *contentType =
+ g_mime_content_type_parse(nullptr, typeName.isEmpty()
+ ? "application/octet-stream"
+ : typeName.constData());
+ GMimePart *part = g_mime_part_new();
+ if (contentType) {
+ g_mime_object_set_content_type(GMIME_OBJECT(part), contentType);
+ g_object_unref(contentType);
+ }
+
+ GMimeStream *stream = g_mime_stream_file_open(path.toLocal8Bit().constData(),
+ "r", nullptr);
+ if (!stream) {
+ // Existence was checked above, so reaching here means the file
+ // went away between the check and the read. Fail rather than
+ // send a message with a hole in it.
+ g_object_unref(part);
+ g_object_unref(mixed);
+ g_object_unref(mime);
+ result.bytes.clear();
+ result.messageId.clear();
+ result.error = QObject::tr("The attachment %1 could not be read.")
+ .arg(info.fileName());
+ return result;
+ }
+ GMimeDataWrapper *wrapper =
+ g_mime_data_wrapper_new_with_stream(stream, GMIME_CONTENT_ENCODING_DEFAULT);
+ g_mime_part_set_content(part, wrapper);
+ g_mime_part_set_content_encoding(part, GMIME_CONTENT_ENCODING_BASE64);
+ g_object_unref(wrapper);
+ g_object_unref(stream);
+
+ const QByteArray filename = info.fileName().toUtf8();
+ g_mime_part_set_filename(part, filename.constData());
+ g_mime_object_set_disposition(GMIME_OBJECT(part), "attachment");
+
+ g_mime_multipart_add(mixed, GMIME_OBJECT(part));
+ g_object_unref(part);
+ }
+ body = GMIME_OBJECT(mixed);
+ }
+
+ g_mime_message_set_mime_part(mime, body);
+ g_object_unref(body);
+
+ GMimeFormatOptions *format = g_mime_format_options_get_default();
+ char *rendered = g_mime_object_to_string(GMIME_OBJECT(mime), format);
+ if (rendered) {
+ result.bytes = QByteArray(rendered);
+ g_free(rendered);
+ } else {
+ result.error = QObject::tr("The message could not be assembled.");
+ result.messageId.clear();
+ }
+
+ g_object_unref(mime);
+ return result;
+}
+
+} // namespace MessageBuilder