[imp] Headers decoding

[Han Spruyt]

Sorry, typo from me, there -ARE- underscores instead of spaces in the string.
The correct header is:
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?T=EBst_1=2C_Student?= <student1 at domain.com>

Han.



Quoting Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar at fantomas.sk>:

> On 17.10.07 22:48, Han Spruyt wrote:
>> An encoded string in a From: header like this:
>>
>> From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?T=EBst 1=2C Student?= <student at domain.com>
>>
>> is parsed like Tëst 1, Student <student at domain.com>
>>
>> So, the display name is not between quotes. It is fed like this in the
>> address processing causing headaches of course because of the comma
>> being an address separator.
>>
>> Searching the internet I found several statements that the
>> encoding(whithout quotes) is RFC compliant, but not being an RFC
>> expert at all.....
>
> that encoding is surely not RFC compliant. There must not be spaces  
> in encoded
> word. They have to be replaced with underscores, or =20 strings.
> (see rfc 2047, section 2)
>
> I know this is not what you asked for, but I couldn't help myself. Even
> SpamAssassin gives high score here.
>
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