Closed
Bug 243885
Opened 20 years ago
Closed 2 years ago
To: field contains more than one whitespace after first colon when message sent without name
Categories
(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)
MailNews Core
Composition
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
WORKSFORME
People
(Reporter: jubal+mozillabugs, Unassigned)
References
Details
(Keywords: privacy)
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040311 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040311 The To: field contains more than one whitespace after the first colon, in the specific case where a full name ("Jubal Kessler" <jubal@sendmail.com>) is *not* included. This seems at first like a cosmetic issue, but turns out to have ramifications for Yahoo!'s DomainKeys anti-spam initiative, which basically creates a digital signature based on the entire message -- including the To: field. If Thunderbird creates a message with a To: containing more than one whitespace, then an MTA strips the leading whitespace, the digital signature becomes invalid. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Enable DomainKeys signing on the MTA. 2. Use this MTA as a client relay. 3. Send mail to user@host.name without using a full name. Actual Results: DomainKeys signature becomes invalid. Expected Results: Thunderbird should strip the leading whitespace, preventing DomainKeys from failing.
Comment 1•20 years ago
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Reproduced with TB 0.7, Moz 1.8a3-0824, Win2K
Assignee: mscott → sspitzer
Severity: normal → minor
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: General → Composition
Ever confirmed: true
Product: Thunderbird → MailNews
Version: unspecified → Trunk
Comment 2•20 years ago
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*** Bug 246119 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3•20 years ago
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*** Bug 266057 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Updated•20 years ago
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Product: MailNews → Core
Comment 4•18 years ago
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This bug is still present in 2.0b1, nearly 3 years after initially reported! I found it the same way Jubal did, after some pain. I wonder how many Thunderbird users tried playing with DK and gave up in frustration because of this stupid little bug?
Comment 5•17 years ago
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same on current trunk. within rfc822 spec, but still a privacy issue at the receiving end, no?
Assignee: sspitzer → nobody
Severity: minor → major
Keywords: privacy
QA Contact: composition
Summary: To: field contains more than one whitespace after first colon → To: field contains more than one whitespace after first colon when message sent without name
Assignee | ||
Updated•16 years ago
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Product: Core → MailNews Core
I tested this: 1. input only an email address in the to field 2. save as draft 3. view the source of the draft No extra whitespace after To: Did I test it correctly? Thunderbird 52.0.1 (32-bit) Windows 7 64-bit
Comment 7•2 years ago
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buovjaga,
Yes, thanks for testing.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 2 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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