220880 - Mail filter rules are not 8-bit clean.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 152888

(MailNews Core :: Filters, defect)

Description

[Anthony Howe]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925

1.5 RC2

Trying to apply filtering rules with characters like the english Pound Sterling
sign or the Euro won't work. Like wise if you copy-paste foreign undisplayable
characters from korean, chinese, etc. spam mail and paste it into a rule and
then try to Run Now the rule.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a new mail filter rule.
2. Add the english pound or euro currency symbols to Subject contains line.
3. Save the rule
4. Select it and click Run Now.

Actual Results:  
Fails to operate with a dialog message.

Expected Results:  
That messages with those symbols (or byte combinations) are filters.

Comment 1

[Stewart Gordon]

This looks rather like bug 152888.  Not sure if it should be counted as a dupe
though.

Comment 2

[Anthony Howe]

Apon reading 152888, it sounds very much like my own case. To add to 152888
comment #4, I copy/pasted the characters (bytes) as seen from my english viewing
persepective. As for the english pound and euro symbol, I can type them from the
keyboard, yet the filter fails when I run it.

Comment 3

[Jungshik Shin]

If every email message (even spam mails) is compliant to RfC 2047, it'd be
relatively easy to fix this, but most spam mails use 'raw' octets with MSB set
(violating RFC 2047) in the mail header(Subject, From, etc), which makes it more
difficult than otherwise to fix this and bug 152888

Comment 4

[Jungshik Shin]

I should have marked this as dupe of bug 152888. Reading it convinced me that
it's a dupe. 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 152888 ***