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27.1; Detect impossible email addresses better

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 51733 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#51733: 27.1; Detect impossible email addresses better
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 13:54:37 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> This is unfortunate.  It means, for example, that a simple lazy
> discovery of suspicious addresses by scanning the email reading buffer
> with regular expressions will not work, and the feature must instead
> scan the original mbox buffer.

There's no scanning -- rmail displays the From header, right?  So it
does decoding before displaying the header.  It has to do the textsec
stuff first, too.

> Why cannot we lift this restriction?  mail-header-parse-address is not
> the only way to parse email addresses.  Or maybe we could encode the
> email address if the original one causes an error?

There is no reliable way to parse a decoded mail address, and since this
is a security thing, we don't want to do DWIM and guesses (which is what
you have to do when composing a valid email address from a string like
"Fóo, Jr. <foo <at> example.com>").

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