Bug 2602

Sylpheed produces forbidden code in the From:-header. I think it concerns all versions of Claws-Mail and Sylpheed. Here's an example:

> From: "Wilhelm C. =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sch=FCtze?=" <wil.c@web.de>
> Newsgroups: de.comm.software.newsreader
> Subject: Sylpheed kein (Sende-) Datum
> X-Newsreader: Sylpheed 3.1.2 (GTK+ 2.24.6; i386-portbld-freebsd9.0)
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>
> Hi, ...

[<jgutir$103$2@news.albasani.net>]


Sylpheed puts the name in double quotes and encodes the non-ASCII character "ü" (ISO-8859-1 FCh) inside the quotes. That is a violation of RFC 2047. RFC 2047 part 5 (3) says:

   + [...]
   + An 'encoded-word' MUST NOT appear within a 'quoted-string'.



I think the use of double quotes in the From:-header is not a good idea.

RFC 5322 part 3.2.4 reads:

Quoted Strings

   Strings of characters that include characters other than those
   allowed in atoms can be represented in a quoted string format, where
   the characters are surrounded by quote (DQUOTE, ASCII value 34)
   characters.


But there is a limitation in RFC 5322 part 2.1

 Note: This document specifies that messages are made up of
      characters in the US-ASCII range of 1 through 127.  There are
      other documents, specifically the MIME document series ([RFC2045],
      [RFC2046], [RFC2047], [RFC2049], [RFC4288], [RFC4289]), that
      extend this specification to allow for values outside of that
      range.  Discussion of those mechanisms is not within the scope of
      this specification.


That means you cannot use ASCII-characters > 127 in the From:-header. So there is no reason working with double quotes.


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