[Users] Stripping of quotes in email addresses in the address book

Ricardo Mones ricardo at mones.org
Fri Oct 11 09:46:03 CEST 2013


  Hi Jonathan,

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 04:39:34PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Hey, clawsfolk, it's been a while since I posted here.
> 
> I wanted to draw your attention to a discussion on linux-kernel right
> now.  It seems that a kernel developer has run into an address book bug,
> and it's making claws look a bit bad; I wonder how hard this would be to
> fix?  
> 
> In short, if you have an email address like:
> 
> 	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw at rjwysocki.net>
> 
> Somehow the address book strips the quotes; the resulting address is not
> SMTP-correct and causes the mail to be bounced in places.

  Seems another instance of bug #2210¹.

  Curiously I've looked into fixing this sometime ago, but seems I didn't
manage to complete anything usable... let's try again ;)

  Thanks for the heads-up,

¹http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2210
-- 
  Ricardo Mones 
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