Package: mozilla-thunderbird
Version: 1.0-3
Severity: normal
Thunderbird incorrectly puts a quote into the MIME Q encoding of
the From field if the cleartext name of the user contains non-ASCII
characters.
In my specific case, I have in userprefs.js
user_pref("mail.identity.id1.fullName", "Martin v. Löwis");
(where the funny bytes are o-umlaut). Thunderburd then puts,
into the From: field
>From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
As you can see, this contains =22 at its begin and its end.
According to RFC 2047 and RFC 2822, this in incorrect. RFC 2047
specifies that encoded-words are intended to be parsed as atoms.
RFC 2822 specifies that the From line is
from = "From:" mailbox-list CRLF
mailbox-list = (mailbox *("," mailbox)) / obs-mbox-list
mailbox = name-addr / addr-spec
name-addr = [display-name] angle-addr
display-name = phrase
phrase = 1*word / obs-phrase
word = atom / quoted-string
So the display-name consist of *either* atoms or quoted strings.
For a quoted-string, the quotes are not part of the semantical
value of the word (3.2.5); for an atom, all atext characters form
the value (3.2.4). So in this From: line, my name would be
"Martin v. L�wis" (i.e. including the quotes). This is wrong,
according to my preferences, my name does not contain quotes.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-686-smp
Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages mozilla-thunderbird depends on:
ii libatk1.0-0 1.8.0-4 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libfontconfig1 2.2.3-4 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.3 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-9 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.6.2-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.6.2-3 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libpango1.0-0 1.8.0-3 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxft2 2.1.2-6 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxp6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System printing extension
ii libxrender1 0.8.3-7 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-11 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4 compression library - runtime
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