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  1. Bug #369150
  2. Comment #66

Comment 66 for bug 369150

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In , Peter Bieringer (pb-bieringer) wrote :

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070313 Fedora/1.5.0.10-5.fc6 Firefox/1.5.0.10
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 and 2.0b2

If encoded Umlauts and commata are used in From a very unexpected behavior occurs:

The From is not displayed well and even on reply, a second line is produced

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create test mail:

$ cat tmp/mail-umlaut.txt
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sure=F6name=2C_Forename__Dr=2E?= <email address hidden>
To: "Peter Bieringer" <email address hidden>
Subject: Umlauttest

Testmail containing Umlaut and commata in From:
<<END

2. Send mail
$ cat tmp/mail-umlaut.txt | /usr/sbin/sendmail <email address hidden>

Results:
a) Main mail panel / sender column:
Is: Sureöname
Should: Sureöname, Forename Dr.

b) Mail window / From:
Is: Forename Dr. <email address hidden>
Should: Sureöname, Forename Dr. <email address hidden>

c) after hitting the reply button / recipients:
Is: To: Sureöname
        To: Forename Dr. <email address hidden>
(2 entries!!!!)

Should: To: Sureöname, Forename Dr. <email address hidden>

This problem was found by receiving a valid e-mail from an Outlook client.

Note that Outlook Express and also the IMAP client of a Nokia Communicator proper displays and handle this From address (showing "..." around).