Closed Bug 1203526 Opened 9 years ago Closed 9 years ago

local-part of address is incorrectly quoted if it contains an exclamation mark

Categories

(MailNews Core :: MIME, defect)

Product:
MailNews Core
Component:
MIME
Platform:
x86_64
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1213748

People

(Reporter: andreas.mahling, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0 Build ID: 20150827140610 Steps to reproduce: entered an address like !mygroup@example.com Actual results: TB quotes local-part to "!mygroup"@example.com causing the mail to bounce. From my point of view, this behavoiur does not conform to rfc 2822 3.4.1, as atext characters may contain exclamation marks and the local-part therefore should not be quoted Expected results: leave local-part as is
OS: Unspecified → Linux
Hardware: Unspecified → x86_64
Component: Untriaged → MIME
Product: Thunderbird → MailNews Core
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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