[sylpheed:33183] Re: BUG: Incorrect RFC 2047 encoding and decoding: encoded-words not treated as atoms within headers
Rich Coe
Richard.Coe at med.ge.com
Thu Sep 10 00:49:55 JST 2009
Hi Frank,
Can you send out an example 'From:' line with the problem ?
R.
On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 11:13:49 +0200
Frank Elsner <frank.elsner at tu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Sylpheed does not handle RFC 2047 encoding and decoding correctly.
>
> When an email contains a "From:" line encoded with RFC 2047 which contains
> characters which should, per RFC (2)822, be quoted (because it contains commas
> (",") or similar characters), sylpheed doesn't decode it properly and thinks
> these are two addresses.
>
> This causes problems with MUAs which correctly encode or decode "From:" lines.
>
>
> Reproducible: Always
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1. Send an email from Outlook Express (6.x?) with a name which contains accents
> and a comma.
> 2. Receive it using sylpheed.
> 3. Try to reply.
>
> Actual Results:
> sylpheed thinks the "From:" lines contained two email addresses.
>
> Expected Results:
> It should have considered it to be one email address.
>
>
> Kind regards, Frank Elsner
>
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Rich Coe richard.coe at med.ge.com
Virtual Principle Engineer General Electric Healthcare Technologies
Clinical Systems Engineering -- Compute Systems Team
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