New submission from R. David Murray: It has come to my attention that at least some mail agents apply postel's law to addresses like the following:
From: "=?utf-8?Q?not_really_valid?=" <f...@example.com> Since encountering something that looks like an encoded word but that is not is a very unlikely occurrence, we could go ahead and decode such strings, resulting in "not really valid" <f...@example.com> a defect would be registered, and some sort of 'strict' policy mode could refuse to do the decode (as well as several other non-compliant patterns, such as encoded words not separated by whitespace). I think the decoding should be the default, though. This applies also to other headers where words or phrases can be quoted, such as in filenames. I have also encountered the quoted-encoded-word-as-filename in the wild. ---------- components: email messages: 180108 nosy: barry, r.david.murray priority: normal severity: normal stage: needs patch status: open title: header parsing could apply postel's law to encoded words inside quotes type: enhancement versions: Python 3.4 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16983> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
