208018 - parsing of email addresses is not working properly with space in address

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Stephan Slabihoud (:slabbi)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529

When entering an incorrect email address this is not recognized and the email is
sent with an even more corrupted address.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compose a new email
2. Send the email to: xy <name@yourdomain .de>
   (note the space before the ".")

Actual Results:  
The email is sent and stored with address
"\"\"\"\"\"\"name\"\"\""@yourdomain .de
in the sent folder


Expected Results:  
1. The user should be informed about the invalid email address.
2. The email should not be sent.
3. There should be no escape characters.

Comment 1

[Stephan Slabihoud (:slabbi)]

Tested again with
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040927

16 months and this bug is still not fixed.

Comment 2

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

Comment 3

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter on "Nobody_NScomTLD_20080620"

Comment 4

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

fyi bug 941861 mentions that per RFCs, spaces are allowed in the local part (before @) if quoted.
I suppose they are not allowed in domain names, but it should be verified.