Bug 204697

Summary:	Blank From: field in article view when accented characters are used
Product:	[Unmaintained] knode	Reporter:	alex dekker <bugs>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	psychonaut
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	screenshot of knode showing lack of user name Screenshot showing bug with header "From: Some Bastard <.@.>"

Description alex dekker 2009-08-21 21:00:01 UTC

Version:           4.3.0 (using 4.3.00 (KDE 4.3.0), Debian packages)
Compiler:          cc
OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.30-1-amd64

If a poster uses a name that contains accented characters, the From field in the article view and the thread list will be blank. The name of the poster can be revealed by viewing the message source.

Comment 1 Olivier Trichet 2009-08-23 19:30:40 UTC

Hello,
could you give the message-Id of such a message ?

Comment 2 alex dekker 2009-08-23 23:07:17 UTC

Created attachment 36395 [details]
screenshot of knode showing lack of user name

screenshot of knode showing lack of user name where the user has put an accented character in it

Comment 3 alex dekker 2009-08-23 23:07:45 UTC

Message ID: pN2dnVIXYL25ReDXnZ2dnUVZ8gqdnZ2d@bt.com

Comment 4 alex dekker 2009-09-03 22:49:50 UTC

Looks like this also affects some posts without 'special' characters in the From: field, for example <jOudnR01rMSVMgPXnZ2dnUVZ8q-dnZ2d@brightview.com>:

From: "Russell W. Barnes" <russell dot barnes at huttonrow dot co dot uk>

Comment 5 alex dekker 2009-10-02 12:07:46 UTC

Looks like this is fixed in 4.3.1

Comment 6 Tristan Miller 2010-09-10 17:33:40 UTC

The problem isn't fixed as of KDE 4.5.

See news:oqkj86p9h4901kfio0j8btqhrtqbttmb8r@4ax.com for an example.  This message has the following From: header:

From: Some Bastard <.@.>

See the attached screenshot for how KNode displays this in the message and in the view source windows.

Comment 7 Tristan Miller 2010-09-10 17:34:47 UTC

Created attachment 51521 [details]
Screenshot showing bug with header "From: Some Bastard <.@.>"

Comment 8 alex dekker 2014-02-06 21:21:20 UTC

This is still present in 4.11.3

Comment 9 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-09-04 18:41:53 UTC

Hello! Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but this project has been unmaintained for many years so I am closing this bug.