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A '<' character in the sender's name causes problems

#1389

I have received email from a person whose name in email headers had a "heart" emoticon, <3, as follows:

"Firstname <3 Lastname"

If I reply to this message, sending fails with

"Failed to send message. No receivers specified in message."

I came across this when responding with Reply All to a message where one of the recipients had this; that specific recipient's email address was truncated into just Firstname in the headers saved in Sent Messages.

Reported by Anonymous · January 24th, 2016 @ 08:37 PM

State: fixreleased
Milestone: none
Assigned to: benny benny

Activity

  1. benny
    benny
    • State changed from new to fixcommitted

    I believe this is a bug in the sending email client. At least I could only reproduce it if the name part was unquoted (which is not allowed in this case).

    Nevertheless, I've hardcoded a workaround for this and similar problems.

    January 25th, 2016 @ 12:50 PM

  2. benny
    benny
    • State changed from fixcommitted to fixreleased

    March 15th, 2016 @ 12:14 PM

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