#2997: Missparsed/decoded headers in index view
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Reporter: Jeremie | Owner: mutt-dev
Type: defect | Status: closed
Priority: minor | Milestone: 1.6
Component: display | Version: 1.5.17
Resolution: wontfix | Keywords: display headers encoding
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Changes (by me):
* status: new => closed
* resolution: => wontfix
Old description:
> Using Gmail's IMAP: messages where the sender has accented characters in
> his realname in From: shows up as a mess =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=E9r=E9mie?= in
> the "index" view alone. When I look at the raw message, I see that the
> From is indeed quoted. When I reply to a message with this problem, mutt
> suggests "To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=E9r=E9mie?= <[email protected]>,
> ?=@laptop" (where laptop is the name of the computer I am working on).
>
> HOWEVER, the From: is then displayed correctly when viewing the message,
> either by pressing [ENTER] in the index view on the message, or by
> pressing 'h' (to view everything).
>
> ALSO, if I moved the message form the IMAP mailbox to a local mailbox,
> when I browse this local mailbox the messages that are copied there (that
> had a problem when they were being viewed in the IMAP mailbox) no longer
> show any signs of this bug. When I copy a message back from the local
> mailbox to the IMAP mailbox, the message is again displayed incorrectly
> in "index" view.
>
> FINALLY, the messages appear to be displayed correctly in Gmail's web
> client, in Thunderbird and in Alpine (using the same IMAP parameters for
> the last two clients).
New description:
Using Gmail's IMAP: messages where the sender has accented characters in
his realname in From: shows up as a mess =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=E9r=E9mie?= in
the "index" view alone. When I look at the raw message, I see that the
From is indeed quoted. When I reply to a message with this problem, mutt
suggests "To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=E9r=E9mie?= <[email protected]>, ?=@laptop"
(where laptop is the name of the computer I am working on).
HOWEVER, the From: is then displayed correctly when viewing the message,
either by pressing [ENTER] in the index view on the message, or by
pressing 'h' (to view everything).
ALSO, if I moved the message form the IMAP mailbox to a local mailbox,
when I browse this local mailbox the messages that are copied there (that
had a problem when they were being viewed in the IMAP mailbox) no longer
show any signs of this bug. When I copy a message back from the local
mailbox to the IMAP mailbox, the message is again displayed incorrectly in
"index" view.
FINALLY, the messages appear to be displayed correctly in Gmail's web
client, in Thunderbird and in Alpine (using the same IMAP parameters for
the last two clients).
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Comment:
I do not think it is going to be possible to make mutt parse incorrectly
encoded address fields without potentially breaking legitimate encodings.
The display in the pager works because it is not attempting to parse the
email addresses, rather it is just decoding the strings as they appear.
But the address parsing itself occurs prior to any decoding, and with a
properly encoded message this is no problem. The issue is that if the
rfc2047 decoding occurs prior to the email address parsing, mutt may
misparse the message because of characters in the "real name" part of the
message that were protected by the rfc2047 encoding will be encountered.
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/2997#comment:124>
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