Comment 41 for bug 369150

I would also like to ask the developers to proceed with this bug and fix it. The comments in the thread are correct - the order of tokenization and decoding of encoded-words needs to be reversed. Encoded-words form always one word (or phrase) only, they cannot be split into several addresses after having been decoded. Section 6.2 of RFC 2047 is very clear about that.

I agree with Vaclav Rehak that this issue is very bothering. Currently, e.g. all emails from Vodafone (yes, the big mobile operator, at least in the Czech Republic) are delivered in the form mentioned in the thread, which Thunderbird recognizes incorrectly. When replying to these emails, one always has to type in the email address manually. Very annoying.