Subject: bug#33613: 25.2; mail-header-parse-address: scan-error "Unbalanced parenthesis" 7 32

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2018 15:02:14 -0500

micah anderson wrote:

> Yeah, the text that comes before the <[email-masked]> in an OpenPGP userID
> is defined as arbitrary UTF-8 text, so it should not be considered to be
> following any email address standard.

OK, but there's a de facto standard [1] that it be a normal email
address. GPG for example won't create a uid like the one in this report
without --allow-freeform-uid, which "should only be used in very special
environments".

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4880#section-5.11
"By convention, it includes an RFC 2822 mail name-addr".