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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: micah anderson <micah <at> riseup.net>

Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2018 16:40:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Found in version 25.2

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 33613 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: micah anderson <micah <at> riseup.net>
Cc: 33613 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#33613: 25.2;
 mail-header-parse-address: scan-error "Unbalanced parenthesis" 7 32
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2018 15:02:14 -0500

micah anderson wrote:

> Yeah, the text that comes before the <dre <at> foo.net> 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".
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