On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Markus Stoll wrote:
>
> >> netscape (even the latest release) creates illegal To: headers,
> containing
> >> a unquoted special characters, e.g.:
> > To: 12345: my name <my_name@???>
>
> >That is indeed illegal, but are you sure it isn't actually
> >To: 12345: my name <my_name@???>;
> >Note the final semicolon. That syntax is legal. It's "group syntax".
>
> I am aware for the group syntax. But there was no ";". You can generate
> such illegal addresses yourself using netscape (at least with the german
> versions) by entering a real name part that contains a dot. Other
> software (like outlook) would encode ths correctly quoted printable.
>
> Netscape does encode german umlauts correct omitting the special character
> ":".
> I created the following header line just using netscape 6.1:
>
> To: 02121: Markus Stoll <markus.stoll@???>,12345:
> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?B=FCro?= ABC <abc@???>
>
>
>
> > [parsing group syntax in foranyaddress...]
> > I will put this on a wish list.
> well, this was not my point. My point is that some mailer generate
> illegal header lines which confuses foranyaddress in system filters.
The entire point of the RFCs is to make some stab of attempt at letting
different systems interoperate - in order for that to work each system
needs to try and adhere to the RFCs - when they dont... Well, the system
breaks.
Its like if you decided to rearrange the meanings off a few words in
english, and then try to speak to someone else using you new words.
They'd have no idea what you were saying - and it would be your fault,
not theirs.
> In the meantime I got along using $recipients instead of $h_to:
> Here the illegal addresses are parsed correctly. I did not use
> $recipients in the first place as the testing mode for system
> message filter seems not complete to me. For certain cases
> (for example mails from mailing list) I cannot setup the test mode
> passing the SMTP recipient (RCPT TO:). But maybe I just did not
> find the right option.
>
> With kind regards,
>
> Markus
>
>
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