On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Rob Hudson <r...@cogit8.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Leo <leo.shklovs...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Digging deep into Python's innards reveals that this is a somewhat > > esoteric protection in case you're writing out Unix mailbox files. The > > specific issue is here: > http://docs.python.org/release/2.6.2/library/email.generator.html#email.generator.Generator > > and involves the mangle_from_ flag. > > > > The hugely more likely case is that if you're using Django's > > EmailMessage class you're sending emails rather than writing Unix > > mailbox files and are running into this bug that way. > > Wouldn't these e-mails end up on other servers that might save the > message in a Unix mailbox format? And if so, wouldn't removing the > ">" from the "From" cause problems? > No, the issue is only for message storage, not transmission -- there's nothing in SMTP that says you need to escape From_ lines. If those servers need to store the message in a Unix mbox, they will escape it on their own. (In fact, if the message contains a line starting with >From, I'm pretty sure they will need to further escape it, storing it as >>From) Ian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-develop...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
