rfc2047.el and mail-utils.el do not follow RFC 2047

rfc2047.el and mail-utils.el do not follow RFC 2047

[Jens Lechtenboerger]

In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i586-suse-linux, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2003-03-17 on E205
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Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

1. Evaluating (rfc2047-encode-message-header) on the line:
To: "Lechtenbörger, Jens" <jens@foo.bar>

produces:
To: =?iso-8859-15?q?Lechtenb=F6rger,_Jens?= <jens@foo.bar>

Thus, the output contains a comma (","), whereas RFC 2047, Section 5
(Use of encoded-words in message headers), rule (3) does not allow a
comma in an encoded word.

2. Evaluating
(mail-strip-quoted-names
    "=?iso-8859-15?q?Lechtenb=F6rger,_Jens?= <jens@foo.bar>")
produces
"=?iso-8859-15?q?Lechtenb=F6rger,jens@foo.bar"
(instead of "jens@foo.bar").
Apparently, mail-strip-quoted-names does not know about
rfc2047-encoded names (they should be treated as atoms).

3. As consequence of the above two bugs, when trying to send one
mail
To: "Lechtenbörger, Jens" <jens@foo.bar>
via smtpmail-send-it, two mails are being sent:  One to the local
(hopefully non-existent) recipient "=?iso-8859-15?q?Lechtenb=F6rger"
and another one to the intended recipient.

Thanks in advance for taking care of this

Jens

Re: rfc2047.el and mail-utils.el do not follow RFC 2047

[Reiner Steib]

Jens Lechtenboerger <lechtej@uni-muenster.de> writes:

> 1. Evaluating (rfc2047-encode-message-header) on the line:
> To: "Lechtenbörger, Jens" <jens@foo.bar>
>
> produces:
> To: =?iso-8859-15?q?Lechtenb=F6rger,_Jens?= <jens@foo.bar>
>
> Thus, the output contains a comma (","), whereas RFC 2047, Section 5
> (Use of encoded-words in message headers), rule (3) does not allow a
> comma in an encoded word.

I think this has been fixed in Gnus 5.10.6:

ELISP> gnus-version
"Gnus v5.10.6"
ELISP> (with-temp-buffer
	 (insert "To: \"Lechtenbörger, Jens\" <jens@foo.bar>")
	 (rfc2047-encode-message-header)
	 (buffer-string))
"To: =?iso-8859-1?q?Lechtenb=F6rger=2C_Jens?= <jens@foo.bar>"

> 2. Evaluating
> (mail-strip-quoted-names
>     "=?iso-8859-15?q?Lechtenb=F6rger,_Jens?= <jens@foo.bar>")
> produces
> "=?iso-8859-15?q?Lechtenb=F6rger,jens@foo.bar"
> (instead of "jens@foo.bar").
> Apparently, mail-strip-quoted-names does not know about
> rfc2047-encoded names (they should be treated as atoms).

Dunno about this.  (`mail-utils' is not a part of Gnus.)

Bye, Reiner.
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