Re: Problems with encoding of e-mail addresses

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>> > We are having some problems with how squirrelmail process some e-mail
>> > addresses when they are encoded in this way:
>> >
>> > =?US-ASCII?Q?Martinez Guerrero=2c_Rafael?= <r.m.guerrero@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> I don't think that spaces are allowed in the encoded string, so make
>> sure
>> that the software sending you these mails encode the e-mail addresses
>> correctly. Unfortunately I don't remember which RFC is violated. Which
>> software is sending you this? Which SquirrelMail version do you use?
>
> You are right.
>
> It is like this:
>
> =?US-ASCII?Q?Martinez_Guerrero=2c_Rafael?= <r.m.guerrero@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I had a mistake when typing this example. So the format used follows
> 100% the RFC.

technically your sample does not follow rfc 1345 :). US-ASCII is 7 bit
character set.

> We are using SQ-1.4.9a, but we have seen this problem in
> old versions too.
>
> A real example:
> =?iso-8859-1?Q?H=E5vard_Hegre=2C_UIO?= <haavard.hegre@xxxxxxxxxx>

SquirrelMail stores address in encoded form, but has to decode it in
compose. When address is decoded, it no longer follows rfc 2822.

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Tomas

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