I demand that Don Armstrong may or may not have written... > severity 531043 minor > tag 531043 unreproducible moreinfo > thanks
Unreproducible? I'm reasonably sure that enough information is present here to make it reproducible, at least when talking raw SMTP to rietz. > On Fri, 29 May 2009, Darren Salt wrote: >> Using my chosen MUA's "followup" function, I sometimes find >> addresses of the form " =?utf-8?q?530...@bugs.debian.org?= >> <530...@bugs.debian.org>" in the To header. Normally, I edit this >> down to just "530...@bugs.debian.org"; for once, I let it through, >> and I promptly got a "550 Administrative prohibition" from rietz. > You get a 550 because that's not a valid To: header. Whatever MUA you're > using is broken and is using an RFC1522 UTF-8 encoding for things that > don't need to be encoded, I'm aware that it's unnecessary. That doesn't automatically make it wrong or buggy but, in turn, it doesn't mean that it shouldn't be fixed. > and then failing to put the encoded bit in quotes to protect it from being > parsed as an address. Now _that_ needs to be fixed, yes. But "be liberal in what you accept" is relevant here, given that the MUA in question is being, shall we say, a little less strict than it should be in what it sends. >> (Why the encoding? There was another name+address pair there in >> which the name contains a non-ASCII character.) > Ask your MUA. Bug report sent (to the appropriate place, which isn't bugs.d.o). > Debbugs doesn't encode things in such a broken fashion: > X-Loop: ow...@bugs.debian.org > Subject: Bug#530796: xine-lib: FTBFS on Hurd > Reply-To: "Marc =?UTF-8?Q?Dequ=C3=A8nes?= (Duck)" <d...@duckcorp.org>, > 530...@bugs.debian.org That doesn't matter – it's sending, not receiving. Though I do accept that it's being strict in what it sends. -- | Darren Salt | linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Doon | Debian GNU/Linux | or ds ,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Buy less and make it last longer. INDUSTRY CAUSES GLOBAL WARMING. I am Scott of Borg. Resistance dinna matter. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
