Bug 161306

Summary: can't reply to a valid email because of the sender's email address has '['
Product: [Unmaintained] kmail Reporter: LI Daobing (李道兵) <lidaobing>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal CC: finex, martin
Priority: NOR Keywords: triaged
Version First Reported In: 1.9.9   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description LI Daobing (李道兵) 2008-04-26 15:35:43 UTC 
Version:           1.9.9 (using 3.5.9, Debian Package 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-1 (lenny/sid))
Compiler:          Target: i486-linux-gnu
OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.24-1-amd64

Hello,

I have many friends who have email address in following format "name [xxx] <foo@company.com>", when I reply their email, I got following warning: "The email address you have entered is not valid because it contains an invalid displayname."

the incoming message is in valid for RFC822 because they use following quote format[1].

[1] From: =?gb2312?B?XXXXXXX?= <XXX@XXX.com>

sometimes I need reply to all(more than 100 mail address), so It's not easy to modify all the address by hand.

so please quote the reciever's address if it has invalid char in displayname instead of just give a warning. (use UTF-8 base64 encoding is OK)

Thanks,
Comment 1 FiNeX 2009-04-04 11:20:15 UTC 
KDE 4.2 manage correctly this type of addresses. I've just checked on trunk too and replying to a mail with such address works fine.
Comment 2 Martin Koller 2009-08-30 19:12:31 UTC 
Then let's close it.