Diagnosis of the 5008 header-less envelopes after the full 225 030-row run
(read-only, on PIHA, 2026-07-14):
- 4999 = one contiguous block at ORDER BY id positions 70001-74999: the
--offset 70000 slice died mid-run. Root cause reproduced: a Date: header
with raw 8-bit bytes makes compat32 .get() return email.header.Header
(not str), and json.dumps([headers]) — which sat OUTSIDE the per-row
try/except — raised TypeError and killed the process, silently losing
the rest of the slice.
- 9 = genuine typed-parse failures: 7x RFC 2047 encoded-word decoding to
CR/LF inside a display name (ValueError in headerregistry), 1x RFC 5322
group syntax in To: ("unlisted-recipients:;"), 1x CPython
_header_value_parser bug on a malformed display name (fixed upstream,
present on PIHA's 3.11).
- 0 missing .eml files.
Fixes:
- date_raw: str() + surrogate sanitization on the compat32 value — the
crash cause, now also covered by a regression test.
- json.dumps moved inside the per-row try: a non-serializable value counts
as that row's parse_error instead of crashing the slice.
- parse_headers_fallback(): on typed-parse failure retry with a pure
compat32 parse — getaddresses over raw header text, raw-string values,
same §4.1 entity shape. Counted separately as parsed_fallback (labeled
subset of updated), logged per row with the original typed error.
- missing_file counter + skip.missing_file info log (id, expected path);
run_complete now balances: scanned = updated + already_has_headers +
parse_errors + read_errors + missing_file. Non-zero missing_file also
fails the exit code.
Verified: 43/43 pytest locally (3.13) and on PIHA (3.11); read-only dry
runs on PIHA — all 9 parse failures recover via fallback, the lost slice
completes scanned=5000 updated=4999 already_has_headers=1 with zero errors.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>