parsing of From lines broken if period in display name

[Lee Maguire]

Binary package hint: evolution

If I receive a mail with the following header
  From: foo.bar baz <email address hidden>

it will be displayed by Evolution as
  From: foo.barb <az <email address hidden>>

The main bug is with the application that sent the mail, since periods are not permitted unless quoted.

However, there are many broken systems that produce these headers (including the mail that led me to discover this) and in fact RFC2822 (Section 4.1) introduces "obs-phrase" which accepts the period.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Jun 15 17:37:19 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
Package: evolution 2.11.3-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: evolution --component=mail
ProcCwd: /home/lee
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution
Uname: Linux zoidberg 2.6.22-6-generic #1 SMP Fri Jun 1 19:24:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug, that's known upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343344