On 2018-05-01, Ted Cooper via Exim-users <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Is this a legal "From:" header? > >> From: =?utf-8?b?IkVsbGEgQmFjaMOpIiA8ZGlnaXRhbEBlbGxhYmFjaGUuY29tLmF1Pg==?=
yes. RFC5322 makes no concrete restrictions on From header content. > How would one extract the email address from it using Exim? according to RFC2047 the header content is '"Ella Baché" <[email protected]>' according to RFC5322 that header does not contain an email address, only the string '"Ella Baché" <[email protected]>' > Thunderbird doesn't decode it properly; some of the other available > tools I've found either completely fail to decode it or seem to work > just fine. Anything that finds an email address in there is part of the problem. RFC2047 requires breaks between atoms in this case a break between the part than means '"Ella Baché"' and the part that means '<[email protected]>' RFC5322 reqires literal < > around the email address part. this would be one way to do it correctly: From: "=?utf-8?b?RWxsYSBCYWNow6k=?=" <[email protected]> best move is probably to tell them to use "Ella Bache" as their from name until they can get their mailer software fixed to that it produces actual emails, and not merely email-like documents. -- ت -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
