Re: [Evolution] title encoding



On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 14:52 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 08:29 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 14:21 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 18:12 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > > The string can't contain any spaces, including linear white space.
> > > The whole token is supposed to be less than 76 characters  for this
> > > purpose, so that any folding (wrapping on multiple lines) is outside
> > > the token boundaries.
> > 
> > Ok. I also have this one, which doesn't contain whitespace in the
> > encoded part:
> > 
> > Subject: d=?ISO-8859-1?B?6Q==?=claration assurance
> > 
> > And it's still not decoded by Evo.
> 
> an 'encoded-word' is defined to be tokenisable as an rfc0822 'word'
> token, of which this is not - it is instead embedded into the middle of
> an rfc0822 word.

I see. Braindamaged sender mailer, indeed.
The rfc also says that encoded words MUST be surrounded by whitespace, etc etc.
Any chance for Evo to workaround this (mainly from Outlook for Mac, but
also various web mailers), or will this complicate the parser too much ?

This was discussed previously, at least this second case.  Someone worked on a patch but unfortunately the workaround isn't trivial (its not super hard, but we're busy).

Still, i'm extremely loathe to, since it is a clear breakage of a pretty simple set of rules from a not-particularly complex rfc.  Seriously, MS should know better, for such a fundamental issue.  We've had issues with rfc compliance in that code and fixed it, i'm sure they can too.

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Michael Zucchi <notzed ximian com>

Ximian Evolution and Free Software Developer


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