GNU bug report logs - #51733
27.1; Detect impossible email addresses better

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Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>

Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2021 00:29:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 27.1

Fixed in version 29.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #299 received at 51733 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 51733 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#51733: 27.1; Detect impossible email addresses better
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 15:06:53 +0100

On Jan 19 2022, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org> writes:
>
>> I don't think it makes sense to run the textsec check on the encoded
>> address, since that will always be ASCII-only.
>
> We decode the header after parsing it (and before doing the textsec
> tests).

The why not allow to run the textsec on the decoded header directly?  If
you have to encode it first you have to do DWIM parsing anyway.

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