comments in email address not supported
Categories
(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
People
(Reporter: zardoz, Unassigned)
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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020418 BuildID: 2002041818 Comments as described in RFC 2822 are handled incorrectly by Mozilla. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. type an email address containing a comment, e.g. a) "mscott@netscape(tm).com" b) "Scott <mscott@netscape(tm).com>" 2. hit send Actual Results: either the comment is mixed up a) To: tm <mscott@netscape.com> or the alias becomes broken b) To: Scott <""mscott\"\"@netscape.com (tm)> Expected Results: According to RFC 2822 (former RFC 822), comments should be ignored and the address passed to the MTA unchanged. Bug creates legal issues according to U.S. law since e.g. a trademark in a company's email address cannot be protected by the (tm) comment correctly.
Comment 1•22 years ago
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Confirming that it happens. pi <3.14(or more)@piology.org> becomes "3.14(or more)" <"3.14(or more)"@piology.org> pi <3.14@piology(TM).org> becomes pi <""\"\"3.14\"\"@piology(TM).org> The law thing is a nice joke:-)) pi
Updated•20 years ago
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Simply typing in (a comment) <user@domain.com> is replaced with "(a comment)" <user@domain.com> which I don't think is correct either, my understanding is that the format is "full name" <user@domain.com> (comment) but it seems Mozilla thinks () should be escaped with quotes.
Comment 3•19 years ago
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*** Bug 306183 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4•19 years ago
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This is a problem for identities set up with comments, also. Per the dupe: Steps to Reproduce: 1.set e-mail for news account for example "something(TRALALALA)@something.com" 2.set your name as "Joe" 3.when you post a message on the news server, the sender is diplayed [in the Sender column] as "TRALALALA" 3a. the header is shown in the envelope panel as: TRALALALA <"something(TRALALALA)"@something.com> which matches the actual From: header. xref bug 121834
Updated•17 years ago
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Updated•16 years ago
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Comment 9•4 years ago
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Still true in 78?
Comment 10•4 years ago
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(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #9)
Still true in 78?
True-ish if based on what I found in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202333#c6 part 2. At least when typed in manually into the To: field.
I tried to copy and paste the email mscott@netscape(tm).com into a new message To: field and actually sent it.
I got a bounce back with:
"Address not found
Your message wasn't delivered to mscott@netscape.com because the address couldn't be found, or is unable to receive mail.
The response from the remote server was:
554 delivery error: dd Not a valid recipient - atlas211.aol.mail.gq1.yahoo.com"
So, for all intents and purposes, it seems to correctly strip out the (tm). (tm) should never be allowed in a valid email.
Updated•2 years ago
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