# Infinite loop in email\_reply\_trimmer

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/infinite-loop-in-email-reply-trimmer/69427>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [September 5, 2017, 8:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/infinite-loop-in-email-reply-trimmer/69427 "2017-09-05T20:06:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![gerhard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/gerhard/32/119479_2.png) [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2017, 4:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/infinite-loop-in-email-reply-trimmer/69427/6 "2017-09-12T16:31:01Z")

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Not sure about the “MIME-encoded email”, but at least I can reproduce the problem in `EmailReplyTrimmer`. ~~I’ll fix it tomorrow.~~ This is now fixed.

> <https://github.com/discourse/email_reply_trimmer/pull/12>
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> The \`\[\\s\\S\]\` was causing problems (the matching could take forever) when none of… the backreferenced words (e.g. \`Am|schrieben\\sSie\`) was found.
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> I replaced it with \`.\` and the \`/m\` option and added a test.
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> @ZogStriP Can we release a new version if this is fine?

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