My Point was not the part about not being able to decode, but the part
where dbmail (or gmime) adds an @host.domain after the non-decodable
address. This confuses things.




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Groet,

Marc Dirix
On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 10:44:42PM +0200, Paul J Stevens wrote:
> John Fawcett wrote:
> > It's likely a bug of the sending client (probably a webmail service).
> > Shouldn't the from header contain only ascii encoding?
> 
> That's not the point. Even if you are correct (I would assume rfc2047
> would apply to From_ headers as well), we'd like dbmail to gracefully
> degrade.
> 
> > John
> > 
> > Aaron Stone wrote:
> >> I've noticed this, too. It's not an added header, it's a mis-decoded
> >> header. I suspect a GMime bug; perhaps Paul has identified which versions
> >> of GMime are buggy in this way?
> 
> Stay current on gmime-2.2. That is the only version I really test. Gmime
> is a fast moving target! 2.4 is api/abi incompatible, and 2.6 (already
> being worked on) will break that again. Jeff has done some fixes in this
> area, and dbmail has it's own share of work-around faulty encodings on
> top of that. Running the unit-tests (./configure --with-check; make
> check) might help in exposing the trouble spots.
> 
> 
> 
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