#3590: Apparently valid email address not accepted in mutt > 1.5.21
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Reporter: william | Owner: mutt-dev
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone: 1.6
Component: mutt | Version:
Keywords: |
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I noticed a weird quirk recently between two different mutt installs
(both fairly recent) that I have. Sorry for the noise if this is from
something odd I did.
If I enter in an address which is technically RFC compliant as quoted,
though uncommon, such as: "[email protected]"@example.com mutt 1.5.20 from
6/2009 allows me to put that in an address field (like "To") when
composing a new message. Mutt 1.5.21, from 9/2010 silently removes the
address from that field if editing the headers in the editor (or, if
composing a new message, doesn't open the editor, again, without error). I
don't think MTA settings are involved, since it removes the address before
actually attempting to send anything.
Is this the expected behavior? I don't think any of the patches I've
applied should affect this particular type of behavior, and I'm not sure
how "smart" mutt should be in regards to address standards compliance.
Accepts the address:
{{{
% mutt -v
Mutt 1.5.20 (2009-06-14)
Copyright (C) 1996-2009 Michael R. Elkins and others.
Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'.
Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details.
System: OpenBSD 4.0 (sparc64)
ncurses: ncurses 5.2.20010224 (compiled with 5.2)
[...]
patch-1.5.13.cd.trash_folder.3.4
}}}
Doesn't:
{{{
% mutt -v
Mutt 1.5.21 (2010-09-15)
Copyright (C) 1996-2009 Michael R. Elkins and others.
Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'.
Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details.
System: Darwin 11.3.0 (x86_64)
ncurses: ncurses 5.7.20081102 (compiled with 5.5)
[...]
patch-1.5.5.1.gj.stuff_all_quoted.2
patch-1.5.13.cd.trash_folder.3.4
}}}
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3590>
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