310514 - Content-type iso-8859-1 doesn't disallow UTF-8 in the From header

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 271508

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Arun Sharma]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4


Everytime someone sends me UTF-8 in the "From" header, but with a 
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

Thunderbird complains. I can't find any reference that says this is legal or
illegal. 

What is the project's position on this issue?


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Send yourself an email with UTF-8 in From, but western encoding
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Thunderbird complains

Expected Results:  
No complaint?

Comment 1

[Josh Birnbaum]

What do you mean by "Thunderbird complains"?
bug 254519 looks related.

Comment 2

[Arun Sharma]

Attachment: Complaint screenshot.png

Comment 3

[zug_treno]

Related to/duplicate of Core bug 271508?

Comment 4

[Arun Sharma]

Yes, it is a duplicate.

Just to note the conclusion: you're taking the position that this is legal, but
users should put up with the annoying dialog box because it's not a high enough
priority for you.

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Next time, mark the duplicate yourself, don't leave it to others to clean up 
your mess.

This bug report absolutely stinks.  The level of detail provided in the original 
report is nearly nonexistent.  "Someone sends you a message" and "Thunderbird 
complains"?  That has *nothing* to do with the actual symptom, which is that 
Thunderbird prompts you about an ambiguous situation when you *compose* a 
message.  Furthermore, you're using 1.0.x software and not bothering to test 
against a current build.

You've got a lot of damn nerve copping attitude here when you can't compose 
a coherent paragraph.  Your understanding of the issues involved here is 
superficial in the extreme.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 271508 ***

Comment 6

[u162355]

arun:

your conclusion is correct in that:
1.  you're taking the position that this is legal
2. users will get an annoying dialog box
3. it's not a high enough priority for the developers

but please understand, that as an open-source project, it's not the developers obligation to fix every 
bug. i also HATE that i have to use a garbled from-address,  but i can understand that with the limited 
amount of time they have on features, they decided that other bugs are of higher priority.

mike:

maybe he was not the most polite guy here,but his conclusion is correct, but his question about the 
project's position is imho valid, and his steps to reproduce the problem are correct and usable.

Comment 7

[Arun Sharma]

Thanks for marking it as a duplicate. Yes, I forgot to say, "you need to reply
and hit send" to the aforesaid message.

I didn't say this is a high priority bug that needs to be urgently fixed. All I
needed to understand in the absence of a clear answer in the RFCs, what the
thunderbird developers thought was legal vs illegal.

Another way to think about this from a user perspective is, he's doing as much
of a favor to the project by reporting the bug (as opposed to not reporting).