Claws-mail unable to import Sylpheed feeds with URLs containing ampersand (&)

[Tim Schulze-Hartung]

Binary package hint: claws-mail

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10
Codename: karmic

$ apt-cache policy claws-mail
claws-mail:
  Installiert: 3.7.2-1ubuntu3
  Kandidat: 3.7.2-1ubuntu3
  Versions-Tabelle:
 *** 3.7.2-1ubuntu3 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I tried to import feeds from rssyl-feedlist.opml but claws-mail failed with the following messages:
>>>>>>>>>>

/home/tim/rssyl-feedlist.opml:18: parser error : xmlParseEntityRef: no name
                                <outline title="Meld. & Fragen" text="astronews.com" description="astronews.
                                                       ^
/home/tim/rssyl-feedlist.opml:19: parser error : EntityRef: expecting ';'
ype="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.astronews.com/forum/external.php?type=rss2&lastpost
                                                                               ^
/home/tim/rssyl-feedlist.opml:38: parser error : EntityRef: expecting ';'
 Updates" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www2a.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?f=252&af
                                                                               ^
/home/tim/rssyl-feedlist.opml:38: parser error : EntityRef: expecting ';'
ates" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www2a.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?f=252&af=x&t
                                                                               ^
/home/tim/rssyl-feedlist.opml:18: parser error : xmlParseEntityRef: no name
                                <outline title="Meld. & Fragen" text="astronews.com" description="astronews.
                                                       ^
/home/tim/rssyl-feedlist.opml:19: parser error : EntityRef: expecting ';'
ype="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.astronews.com/forum/external.php?type=rss2&lastpost
                                                                               ^
/home/tim/rssyl-feedlist.opml:38: parser error : EntityRef: expecting ';'
 Updates" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www2a.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?f=252&af
                                                                               ^
/home/tim/rssyl-feedlist.opml:38: parser error : EntityRef: expecting ';'
ates" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www2a.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?f=252&af=x&t

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So, claws-mail seems to fail to import feeds from rssyl-feedlist.opml if 'title', 'xmlUrl' and maybe other attributes of 'outline' contain an ampersand (&).

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Lucid Lynx. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Ubuntu 10.04 was released on 2010-04-29. There were many changes in claws-mail from Ubuntu 9.10 to Ubuntu 10.04. It would really help to know if this is fixed in 10.04.

Thanks!

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

 We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!