Evolution mangles certain email addresses, resulting in undeliverable messages when replying

[Felix Kuehling]

Binary package hint: evolution

Evolution mangles certain email addresses in message headers. When replying to such addresses, the resulting emails are undeliverable.

When I look at the message source, the address looks correct:

    To: sw.dl.Linux BG <sw.dl.LinuxBG@bla>

When I look at the message in any other view than "Message Source", I get this:

    To: sw.dl.LinuxB <G sw.dl.LinuxBG@bla>

The mangled email address also propagates to the CC-header when using "Reply to all" on such a message. The resulting message is undeliverable and doesn't reach the intended mailing list.

I see that "sw.dl.Linux BG" should probably be in quotes because of the space. But the message got all the way to me in this form, so all the MTAs on the way deal with this gracefully. My MUA (evolution) should be able to deal with this too.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: evolution 2.30.3-1ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.34-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Oct 20 10:59:20 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution

[Marcel Stimberg (marcelstimberg)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 258139, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.