Remove ability to specify headers in the editor

Due to headers being essentially free text, we constantly run into issues
with parts of the body being interpreted as headers.

Remove the ability to overwrite headers to avoid that, while keeping the ability
to specify headers in the template files.

Fixes #383

1 files changed, 42 insertions, 147 deletions

diff --git a/widgets/compose.go b/widgets/compose.go
index a97e5fed..9ceabf6c 100644
--- a/widgets/compose.go
+++ b/widgets/compose.go
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 
-	"github.com/emersion/go-message"
 	"github.com/emersion/go-message/mail"
 	"github.com/gdamore/tcell"
 	"github.com/mattn/go-runewidth"
@@ -99,10 +98,10 @@ func NewComposer(aerc *Aerc, conf *config.AercConfig,
 		completer: cmpl,
 	}
 
-	c.AddSignature()
 	if err := c.AddTemplate(template, templateData); err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
+	c.AddSignature()
 
 	c.updateGrid()
 	c.ShowTerminal()
@@ -172,16 +171,6 @@ func (c *Composer) SetContents(reader io.Reader) *Composer {
 	return c
 }
 
-func (c *Composer) PrependContents(reader io.Reader) {
-	buf := bytes.NewBuffer(nil)
-	c.email.Seek(0, io.SeekStart)
-	io.Copy(buf, c.email)
-	c.email.Seek(0, io.SeekStart)
-	io.Copy(c.email, reader)
-	io.Copy(c.email, buf)
-	c.email.Sync()
-}
-
 func (c *Composer) AppendContents(reader io.Reader) {
 	c.email.Seek(0, io.SeekEnd)
 	io.Copy(c.email, reader)
@@ -198,67 +187,29 @@ func (c *Composer) AddTemplate(template string, data interface{}) error {
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
-	return c.addTemplate(templateText)
-}
 
-func (c *Composer) AddTemplateFromString(template string, data interface{}) error {
-	if template == "" {
-		return nil
-	}
-
-	templateText, err := templates.ParseTemplate(template, data)
+	mr, err := mail.CreateReader(templateText)
 	if err != nil {
-		return err
+		return fmt.Errorf("Template loading failed: %v", err)
 	}
-	return c.addTemplate(templateText)
-}
 
-func (c *Composer) addTemplate(templateText []byte) error {
-	reader, err := mail.CreateReader(bytes.NewReader(templateText))
-	if err != nil {
-		// encountering an error when reading the template probably
-		// means the template didn't evaluate to a properly formatted
-		// mail file.
-		// This is fine, we still want to support simple body templates
-		// that don't include headers.
-		//
-		// Just prepend the rendered template in that case. This
-		// basically equals the previous behavior.
-		c.PrependContents(bytes.NewReader(templateText))
-		return nil
-	}
-	defer reader.Close()
-
-	// populate header editors
-	header := reader.Header
-	mhdr := (*message.Header)(&header.Header)
-	for _, editor := range c.editors {
-		if mhdr.Has(editor.name) {
-			editor.input.Set(mhdr.Get(editor.name))
-			// remove header fields that have editors
-			mhdr.Del(editor.name)
+	// add the headers contained in the template to the default headers
+	hf := mr.Header.Fields()
+	for hf.Next() {
+		var val string
+		var err error
+		if val, err = hf.Text(); err != nil {
+			val = hf.Value()
 		}
+		c.defaults[hf.Key()] = val
 	}
 
-	part, err := reader.NextPart()
+	part, err := mr.NextPart()
 	if err != nil {
-		return errors.Wrap(err, "reader.NextPart")
-	}
-	c.PrependContents(part.Body)
-
-	var (
-		headers string
-		fds     = mhdr.Fields()
-	)
-	for fds.Next() {
-		headers += fmt.Sprintf("%s: %s\n", fds.Key(), fds.Value())
-	}
-	if headers != "" {
-		headers += "\n"
+		return fmt.Errorf("Could not get body of template: %v", err)
 	}
 
-	// prepend header fields without editors to message body
-	c.PrependContents(bytes.NewReader([]byte(headers)))
+	c.AppendContents(part.Body)
 	return nil
 }
 
@@ -411,114 +362,58 @@ func (c *Composer) Worker() *types.Worker {
 }
 
 func (c *Composer) PrepareHeader() (*mail.Header, []string, error) {
-	// Extract headers from the email, if present
-	if err := c.reloadEmail(); err != nil {
-		return nil, nil, err
-	}
-	var (
-		rcpts  []string
-		header mail.Header
-	)
-	reader, err := mail.CreateReader(c.email)
-	if err == nil {
-		header = reader.Header
-		defer reader.Close()
-	} else {
-		c.email.Seek(0, io.SeekStart)
+	header := &mail.Header{}
+	for h, val := range c.defaults {
+		if val == "" {
+			continue
+		}
+		header.SetText(h, val)
 	}
-	// Update headers
-	mhdr := (*message.Header)(&header.Header)
-	mhdr.SetText("Message-Id", c.msgId)
+	header.SetText("Message-Id", c.msgId)
+	header.SetDate(c.date)
 
 	headerKeys := make([]string, 0, len(c.editors))
 	for key := range c.editors {
 		headerKeys = append(headerKeys, key)
 	}
-	// Ensure headers which require special processing are included.
-	for _, key := range []string{"To", "From", "Cc", "Bcc", "Subject", "Date"} {
-		if _, ok := c.editors[key]; !ok {
-			headerKeys = append(headerKeys, key)
-		}
-	}
 
-	for _, h := range headerKeys {
-		val := ""
-		editor, ok := c.editors[h]
-		if ok {
-			val = editor.input.String()
-		} else {
-			val, _ = mhdr.Text(h)
+	var rcpts []string
+	for h, editor := range c.editors {
+		val := editor.input.String()
+		if val == "" {
+			continue
 		}
 		switch h {
-		case "Subject":
-			if subject, _ := header.Subject(); subject == "" {
-				header.SetSubject(val)
+		case "From", "To", "Cc", "Bcc": // Address headers
+			hdrRcpts, err := gomail.ParseAddressList(val)
+			if err != nil {
+				return nil, nil, errors.Wrapf(err, "ParseAddressList(%s)", val)
 			}
-		case "Date":
-			if date, err := header.Date(); err != nil || date == (time.Time{}) {
-				header.SetDate(c.date)
+			edRcpts := make([]*mail.Address, len(hdrRcpts))
+			for i, addr := range hdrRcpts {
+				edRcpts[i] = (*mail.Address)(addr)
 			}
-		case "From", "To", "Cc", "Bcc": // Address headers
-			if val != "" {
-				hdrRcpts, err := gomail.ParseAddressList(val)
-				if err != nil {
-					return nil, nil, errors.Wrapf(err, "ParseAddressList(%s)", val)
-				}
-				edRcpts := make([]*mail.Address, len(hdrRcpts))
-				for i, addr := range hdrRcpts {
-					edRcpts[i] = (*mail.Address)(addr)
-				}
-				header.SetAddressList(h, edRcpts)
-				if h != "From" {
-					for _, addr := range edRcpts {
-						rcpts = append(rcpts, addr.Address)
-					}
+			header.SetAddressList(h, edRcpts)
+			if h != "From" {
+				for _, addr := range edRcpts {
+					rcpts = append(rcpts, addr.Address)
 				}
 			}
 		default:
-			// Handle user configured header editors.
-			if ok && !mhdr.Header.Has(h) {
-				if val := editor.input.String(); val != "" {
-					mhdr.SetText(h, val)
-				}
-			}
-		}
-	}
-
-	// Merge in additional headers
-	txthdr := mhdr.Header
-	for key, value := range c.defaults {
-		if !txthdr.Has(key) && value != "" {
-			mhdr.SetText(key, value)
+			header.SetText(h, val)
 		}
 	}
-
-	return &header, rcpts, nil
+	return header, rcpts, nil
 }
 
 func (c *Composer) WriteMessage(header *mail.Header, writer io.Writer) error {
 	if err := c.reloadEmail(); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
-	var body io.Reader
-	reader, err := mail.CreateReader(c.email)
-	if err == nil {
-		// TODO: Do we want to let users write a full blown multipart email
-		// into the editor? If so this needs to change
-		part, err := reader.NextPart()
-		if err != nil {
-			return errors.Wrap(err, "reader.NextPart")
-		}
-		body = part.Body
-		defer reader.Close()
-	} else {
-		c.email.Seek(0, io.SeekStart)
-		body = c.email
-	}
 
 	if len(c.attachments) == 0 {
 		// don't create a multipart email if we only have text
-		return writeInlineBody(header, body, writer)
+		return writeInlineBody(header, c.email, writer)
 	}
 
 	// otherwise create a multipart email,
@@ -529,7 +424,7 @@ func (c *Composer) WriteMessage(header *mail.Header, writer io.Writer) error {
 	}
 	defer w.Close()
 
-	if err := writeMultipartBody(body, w); err != nil {
+	if err := writeMultipartBody(c.email, w); err != nil {
 		return errors.Wrap(err, "writeMultipartBody")
 	}