Closed Bug 196868 Opened 21 years ago Closed 20 years ago

having colon in from name (henrik:gemal) make wrong from header

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Networking: SMTP, defect)

Product:
MailNews Core
Component:
Networking: SMTP
Platform:
x86
Windows 2000
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: bugzilla, Assigned: mscott)

References

Details

if you set up an account which has the following from name:
henrik:gemal

and send a mail the From header then looks something like this when you recieve
a mail:
From: henrik@pfepc.post.tele.dk:gemal <no@spam.com>

somehow the SMTP server is inserted into the from header!

20030310
it's something that the SMTP server inserts. Should we encode the :
?
Outlook Express doesn't have this problem since it puts the names inside quotes:
From: "henrik:gemal" <no@spam.com>

while Mozilla produces this header:
From: henrik:gemal <no@spam.com>

Reading RFC822 I think having an colon in an fromname is illegal. Mozilla should
quote the name if the Fromname as a colon!
This is also true for the "To/Cc" headers if the colon ispresent in Address
Book's name field.
(In reply to comment #3)
> Reading RFC822 I think having an colon in an fromname is illegal.

Not exactly.  A colon in the name should be parsed as the beginning of an RFC822 
group.  With:
  henrik:gemal <hg@wherever.tld>
"henrik" would be the group name and "gemal <hg@wherever.tld>" would be the 
first address in the group.  This address would still be illegally formed, 
however, since the group (which may include several comma-separated addresses) 
is supposed to end with a semicolon.

Note that Mozilla does not parse the groups syntax correctly even when well-
formed; see bug 83521, bug 110605.


> Mozilla should quote the name if the Fromname as a colon!

Since the colon is legal RFC822 syntax, you should be responsible for quoting it 
yourself, just as if you wanted the name to include an @ sign:
  "henrik@gemal" <hg@wherever.tld>
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Product: MailNews → Core
*** Bug 324444 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 362581 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Product: Core → MailNews Core
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