Re[2]: Real names not displayed correctly

[Andrew Savchenko]

Hello Thomas,

Thursday, May 7, 2020, 11:36:19 PM, you wrote:

> Some powers are more powerful than RFCs.

What are you proposing here, change the laws to suit the largest player?

I believe that response from Maxim was crystal clear:

>> This is intentional behaviour, to address the Mailsploit issue.
>> .
>> Otherwise, it would have allowed effective sender spoofing in The Bat!

Is that what you want?


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Re[2]: Real names not displayed correctly

[Andrew Savchenko]

Hello Thomas,

Wednesday, May 6, 2020, 10:42:23 PM, you wrote:

> The sender's MUA is the webmailer at qq.com, one of the biggest email
> providers in China. I would think that TB should accommodate their
> flaw, as other receiving MUAs do.

With all due respect, no MUA should accommodate to a bug of a single 
provider gone rogue.

To quote Maxim (see https://bt.ritlabs.com/view.php?id=1791#c6045)

M> This is intentional behaviour, to address the Mailsploit issue.
M> See https://www.mailsploit.com/index
M>
M> The address lines in From and Reply-to do not have a part surrounded
M> by <>, that is used by mail transfer agents, which do not decode
M> headers. Thus in this case The Bat! should also not decode such
M> headers. Otherwise, it would have allowed effective sender spoofing in The 
Bat!

...

> Unless Ritlabs can change China, TheBat becomes unusable for business.

Let's reduce scope of generalisation here. Until this sentence point of
discussion was a single mail server, not a country.


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