383394 - Incorrect handling of a mail account's personal name (e.g. "John Doe") containing colons

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[KJK::Hyperion]

User-Agent:       Opera/9.20 (Windows NT 5.1; U; it)
Build Identifier: 2.0.0.0 (20070326)

If a personal name associated to a mail account contains colons (like mine - "KJK::Hyperion"), e-mails sent from the account arrive with the name in the From: line completely mangled, often with the SMTP's host name mixed in. This is highly undesireable not to mention a violation of privacy for disclosing the SMTP server's host name

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a mail account with a colon (":") in the personal name (not the account name)
2. Send mail from the account
3. Receive mail
Actual Results:  
Personal name in From: line is variously mangled, often with extra text inserted after the colon

Expected Results:  
The name should be received intact

Seems to be related to bug #324444

Comment 1

[KJK::Hyperion]

Workaround found: manually enclose the name in quotes

Comment 2

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

WFM here on

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5pre) Gecko/20091022 Lightning/1.0pre Shredder/3.0pre ID:20091022031603

(ps: I use :Aureliano Buendía without quote here)

KJK::Hyperion could you try to see if it still happens with
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/latest-comm-1.9.1/ and close as WFM if you see that the issue is gone?

Comment 3

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

RESO INCO due to lack of response to last question. If you feel this change was made in error, please respond to this bug with your reasons why.