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26.2; sendmail.el needlessly munging headers by inserting backslashes

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From: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka <at> jpl.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Ed Sabol <esabol <at> milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov>, 38200 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38200: 26.2; sendmail.el needlessly munging headers by
 inserting backslashes
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 17:05:34 +0900

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On Thu, 14 Nov 2019 08:34:24 +0100, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> I seem to vaguely recall there perhaps being a problem with things
> like

> From: "Foo, Bar" <foo <at> zot.com>, zot <at> foo.com

> being tokenized into three email addresses

> Foo
> Bar <foo <at> zot.com>
> zot <at> foo.com

> But on the other hand, if there's anything that broken out there, you'd
> think that adding a backslash before the comma wouldn't help, either.

Sure.  Mail agents do not know what backslashes like to do.

> Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka <at> jpl.org> writes:
>> But as for at least rfc2047-quote-*, it looks surely
>> needless.  With some brief tests, I verified the address-mime
>> encoder works without it.  Even if it is necessary for some cases,
>> it would probably be very rare, so I'd like to remove it now.
>> May I do that?

> Sure, go ahead.  If there's any interoperability problems here, we'll
> find out.  But I think it's pretty unlikely.

Done in master.  Thanks.  Ed, a patch for Emacs 26.2 is attached.

Regards,

[remove-rfc2047-quote-special-characters-in-quoted-strings.patch.gz (application/x-gunzip, attachment)]

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