From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: Incorrect parsing of email addresses (MIME with quotes)
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:38:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2fl1ut17iqm.fsf@diskless.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EA58DC6.6090108@fifthhorseman.net>
[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2047#page-8
>
> states quite clearly:
>
> + An 'encoded-word' MUST NOT appear within a 'quoted-string'.
>
> I'd argue that notmuch is doing the right thing here, and that MUAs that
> wrap encoded words in quotes (or that apply decoding rules within quoted
> strings) are the ones that need fixing.
Well, feel free to spend time on trying to get the other mail programs
changed. I do not have the privilege to give that project a priority
myself.
I just hope the notmuch developers can choose to follow the robustness
principle[1] in this case, and be liberal in what notmuch accept, and
conservative in what notmuch send. After all, gnus, mutt and pine
handle these from fields.
1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle
--
Happy hacking,
Petter Reinholdtsen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-21 12:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-24 11:53 Incorrect parsing of email addresses (MIME with quotes) Petter Reinholdtsen
2011-10-24 16:09 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2011-11-21 12:38 ` Petter Reinholdtsen [this message]
2011-11-22 23:30 ` David Bremner
2011-11-23 2:58 ` Austin Clements
2011-11-25 5:49 ` Petter Reinholdtsen
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