196868 - having colon in from name (henrik:gemal) make wrong from header

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Networking: SMTP, defect)

Description

[Henrik Gemal]

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: [e-mail]:gemal <[e-mail]>

somehow the SMTP server is inserted into the from header!

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Comment 1

[Henrik Gemal]

it's something that the SMTP server inserts. Should we encode the :
?

Comment 2

[Henrik Gemal]

Outlook Express doesn't have this problem since it puts the names inside quotes:
From: "henrik:gemal" <[e-mail]>

while Mozilla produces this header:
From: henrik:gemal <[e-mail]>

Comment 3

[Henrik Gemal]

Reading RFC822 I think having an colon in an fromname is illegal. Mozilla should
quote the name if the Fromname as a colon!

Comment 4

[Lapo Luchini]

This is also true for the "To/Cc" headers if the colon ispresent in Address
Book's name field.

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(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 <[e-mail]>
"henrik" would be the group name and "gemal <[e-mail]>" 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" <[e-mail]>

Comment 6

[Alex K]

*** Bug 324444 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

*** Bug 362581 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***