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

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Packages: emacs, gnus;

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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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 51733 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#51733: 27.1; Detect impossible email addresses better
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 15:36:34 +0100

Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Based on the message buffer I have, gnus didnʼt encode it again, so it
> must have been gmail. Of course that header was ascii-only, so why did
> they encode again?

RFC2047 isn't just about ASCII -- it's about a bunch of other unsafe
characters, like =, which will trigger encoding of (naked) words that
contain those characters.

> What did the From: look like on the message you've just replied to?
> Gnus should not have encoded it, and it contained utf-8 in the display
> name.

I included the From in wire format and displayed format already.

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