280175 - Problem sending mail in offline mode to recipient with accents in his name

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Michal Ludvig]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041109 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.0 (20041207) for Linux

In my setup I use LANG=cs_CZ system-wide, and compose messages in
ISO-8859-2 (Central European). Normally this works fine, but
when I compose a mail in offline mode to an address where the
recipient name contains some accented letters (e.g. to "Michál
<mludvig@localhost>"), send it via "Send Later", then exit Thunderbird
and next time, when going on-line and sending the queued messages
I get an error:
| An error occured while sending mail. The server responded: Bad
| address syntax.

I did some tests with my local postfix server and realised that
Thunderbird sends this wrong SMTP command:
RCPT TO:<"Mich?l<mludvig\"@localhost>">
Indeed there should be only:
RCPT TO:<mludvig@localhost>

All this happens only when I compose message to someone with some
specific accents in their name in offline mode, queue for sending
later and then exit thunderbird. Direct sending from online mode works
in all cases as well as does offline sending to addresses without
accents (e.g. to "Michal <mludvig@localhost>" it works in offline as
well). It also works when I don't exit Thunderbird before going
online.

The "problematic accents" include e.g. á (&aacute;) and í (&iacute;),
OTOH some other work fine, e.g. &zcaron; or &rcaron;


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go off-line in thunderbird
2. Compose message to "Michál <someone@somewhere>"
3. "Send later"
4. Exit Thbird.
5. Run Thbird
6. Go online and send messages.
Actual Results:  
Message box:
| An error occured while sending mail. The server responded: Bad
| address syntax.


Expected Results:  
Messages being sent

Happens at least on SuSE Linux 9.2 with LANG=cs_CZ

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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