222826 - Fail to return a receipt when Disposition-Notification-To header is on more than one-line

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Backend, defect)

Description

[Kalin Kozhuharov]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031018
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031018

I just got a rfc2822 violating mail, i.e. split header with second line NOT
starting with white-space-character and Mozilla(1.5, just built) failed to send
a return receipt (my qmail MTA said: bare LF!).
Then I started experimenting with different versions of the
Disposition-Notification-To header and what I found is that if the header body
is split in two lines (or more?), EVEN CORRECTLY (i.e. with white-space-char at
the beginning), Mozilla cannot send a return receipt.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Send a mail with Disposition-Notification-To header body split into 2 lines
(perhaps a veeeeery long From address, so it gets split)
2. Open it in Mozilla Mail.
3. Click ok to send the return receipt.

Actual Results:  
If you have a good MTA (qmail), it will report back error. Otherwise undefined,
but possibly a mail with bare LF will be send.

Expected Results:  
Sendidng a RR should happen.

For bare LFs, see:     http://cr.yp.to/docs/smtplf.html

The mail I've got was sent from:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823
Netscape/7.0
which is probably another bug to be filed.

Mozilla 1.5 does not split the Disposition-Notification-To header into 2 lines,
even when it is veeery long.

An example: rfc correct, but not working header:

Disposition-Notification-To: My mail <CRLF>
<TAB>[e-mail]

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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