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Revert "check for undesirable quotes" - #299
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Gmail's search syntax has no way to escape a double quote, so a `"` inside a value can only be valid as a pair around the whole value, e.g. subject: '"hello world"'. Since bc6bb81 such values are passed through unchanged, which fixed the example originally reported in mbrt#66. Any other quote still produced a malformed query without warning: subject: 'say "hi" now' -> subject:"say "hi" now" subject: '"unbalanced start' -> subject:""unbalanced start" from: 'foo"bar' -> from:foo"bar has: '"exact phrase" other' -> ""exact phrase" other" The pass-through check also only looked at the first and last characters, so '"foo" OR "bar"' was treated as a single phrase. Nested in a larger query it rendered as `subject:"foo" OR "bar"`, where "bar" matches anywhere in the message, not only in the subject. Make quote() accept a quote only when the value is exactly one quoted phrase (the new filter.IsQuoted), and fail otherwise, with a note on how to fix the config: remove the quotes (they are added automatically when needed), or write raw Gmail syntax with `isEscaped: true` or `query`, which are not checked. A similar check was added in mbrt#260 and reverted in mbrt#299, because it rejected every quote, including values wrapped as a whole, which users rely on to force an exact match (e.g. to: '"foo+bar"'). Those keep working: the new check only rejects values that already generated broken queries. Configs containing them will now fail to apply until fixed, which is intended, but worth a release note. `gmailctl test` also treated the quotes around a phrase as literal text, so rules like subject: '"hello world"' or to: '"foo+bar"' failed their own tests, even though Gmail matches them. The evaluators now strip those quotes before matching, using the same IsQuoted check. Close mbrt#66.
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Reverts #260. See #66 (comment) and following for the discussion.