(In reply to comment #0)
> When an email contains a "From:" line encoded with RFC 2047 which contains
> characters which should, per RFC (2)822, be quoted (because it contains commas
> (",") or similar characters), Mozilla doesn't decode it properly and thinks
> these are two addresses.
The name is correctly shown in the Recipient column, and replying to the message constructs the name as expected in the addressing widget of the compose window -- except, the name is quoted, as in...
> The reverse is also true. It quotes an email address which contains a comma
> and then apply RFC 2047 (which it shouldn't do).
The quotes aren't necessary for the MIME encoding, but I think they may be necessary for the addressing widget to parse correctly. If you simply type a comma-separated name into the field without the quotes, the widget automatically splits it into two separate addresses. If the addition of quotes is still a problem, that should go into a new bug -- if not every dupe to this bug is about the first problem, I bet 98% of them are.
(In reply to comment #0)
> When an email contains a "From:" line encoded with RFC 2047 which contains
> characters which should, per RFC (2)822, be quoted (because it contains commas
> (",") or similar characters), Mozilla doesn't decode it properly and thinks
> these are two addresses.
Verifying this has been fixed. I am seeing correct behavior in mozilla. org/pub/ thunderbird/ nightly/ latest- comm-central/
Gecko/20081207 Shredder/3.0b2pre
(Find it here:
ftp://ftp.
)
The name is correctly shown in the Recipient column, and replying to the message constructs the name as expected in the addressing widget of the compose window -- except, the name is quoted, as in...
> The reverse is also true. It quotes an email address which contains a comma
> and then apply RFC 2047 (which it shouldn't do).
The quotes aren't necessary for the MIME encoding, but I think they may be necessary for the addressing widget to parse correctly. If you simply type a comma-separated name into the field without the quotes, the widget automatically splits it into two separate addresses. If the addition of quotes is still a problem, that should go into a new bug -- if not every dupe to this bug is about the first problem, I bet 98% of them are.
Thanks very much, Martin and David.