email TO: address string gets mangled during "expansion"

[SaintDanBert]

Binary package hint: evolution

NOTE -- These symptoms might be related to those in bug #597087 "... full stop ..."

I have contacts with stored email addresses that look like {quotes included} "lastname, firstname" <email address hidden>.
During Compose new message, I can type any part of these address strings into TO: or CC: or BCC: and Evolution will suggest a contact email address that has matching parts. This much usually works.

Once I select an address from those suggested, I use TAB to move to the next field and Evolution expands what I typed with the stored email address. Here, I routinely get a mangled string instead of what is stored.

The mangled string has space characters or punctuation where they don't belong. These characters might appear in either
the string outside of brackets "mangled name" <okay@address> -- or inside the brackets "okay name" <mangled@address>
-- or both.

Another aspect of this problem involves my efforts to edit and correct the mangled address strings.
When I make corrections, I often get different forms of mangled address strings -- again with spaces and punctuation.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: evolution 2.28.3-0ubuntu10.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-28.55-generic-pae 2.6.32.27+drm33.12
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-28-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Jan 31 14:29:33 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your bug report. Is this still an issue with the latest release of Ubuntu the Natty Narwhal? May you please check and comment back? Thanks in advance!.

[SaintDanBert (saint-grillongroup)]

On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 20:23 +0000, Pedro Villavicencio wrote:

> Thanks for your bug report. Is this still an issue with the latest
> release of Ubuntu the Natty Narwhal? May you please check and comment
> back? Thanks in advance!.
>
> ** Changed in: evolution (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Low
>
> ** Changed in: evolution (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>

I have yet to upgrade to Natty. If I can update Evolution separately
without
the distro update, I'll gladly give that a try. I currently run
Evolution v2.28.3.

I have tried to get a handle on a pattern of bad behavior. All I have
discovered is
the following:

Given an address {"First Last" <email address hidden>}
I get bad expansion if the address book holds "Last, First". This is
very reproducible.
If there is more punctuation in the quoted part, "Last, First, Suffix"
or "Last, First M., Suffix" or "Prefix, Last, First M., Suffix" and
similar the rate of expansion error is higher. Punctuation between name
parts is one thing. Punctuation also appears
inside of name parts. For example, my last name "St.Andre" or names like
"O'Brian".

I suspect that the address expansion parser chokes on embedded
punctuation
especially when the characters match those used in desired result --
period, comma,
apostrophe, semicolon.

Thanks,
~~~ 0;-Dan

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