524471 - Address from is incorrectly quoted in To: header field

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Johannes Wienke]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3
Build Identifier: 20090817

I got an address book entry for a mailing list that contains a colon (:) in it's name. Using this entry to write a mail causes a non rfc-compliant header, because thunderbird doesn't quote the name containing the colon:

To: digiKam developers room - digiKam: Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <[e-mail]>

I noticed this problem because mailing lists managed by gnu mailman don't deliver such mails to subscribers

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a contact in the address book containing a colon in its name
2. write a new mail to this contact using the address book entry, so that the name with the colon is displayed in the To: message field
Actual Results:  
Long name of the contact is not quoted

Expected Results:  
Long name of the person is quoted to fulfill RFC

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

What version of Thunderbird are you using ?

Comment 2

[Johannes Wienke]

Thunderbird 2 with the build identifier mentioned above. I don't have the minor number right now.

Comment 3

[Johannes Wienke]

Version 2.0.0.23 (20090817) is the complete version information.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Johannes, can you reproduce this on current version ??

Comment 5

[Johannes Wienke]

Yes still happens:

Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:06:34 +0100
From: Johannes Wienke <[e-mail]>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120217 Thunderbird/10.0.2
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: test : it again: to test <[e-mail]>
Subject: hello world

Comment 6

[Codain]

It seems to be solved on Thunderbird 78.6.0 (32 bits), can someone confirm?

Steps to Reproduce:

1. create a contact in the address book containing a colon in its name
2. write a new mail to this contact using the address book entry, so that the name with the colon is displayed in the To: message field
3. See that the contact is recognized as one single contact with a star
4. Save message as a draft
5. Go in your draft forlder, select the message and display its source
6. See that TO filed is correctly quoted like To: "Test Test : ok" <[e-mail]>

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Alex do you agree this issue is gone?

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

WFM with current beta